Microsoft is backtracking on its earlier coverage, permitting customers to run its Microsoft 365 software program on AWS.

Microsoft has been below hearth for making it dearer for purchasers to run the corporate’s software program on competing cloud platforms. The EU, particularly, has began scrutinizing the corporate’s cloud practices after receiving a number of complaints from its opponents.

The corporate seems to be making modifications, now permitting customers to run Microsoft 365 on AWS, per its newest phrases:

Starting August 1, 2023, customers with particular licenses could run Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise/enterprise, Microsoft Undertaking, and Microsoft Visio on Amazon WorkSpaces. The licenses that will likely be eligible below this revised coverage embrace Microsoft 365 E3/E5/A3/A5 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise Premium. For those who presently have any of those licenses, ranging from August 1, it is possible for you to to make the most of these Microsoft purposes on Amazon WorkSpaces digital desktop infrastructure.

The coverage change is sweet information for purchasers.