Effective October 1, 2023, Microsoft added a clause to the Product Terms: If a customer has enabled Extended Security Updates (ESU) through Azure Arc they may use the updates on licensed Disaster Recovery servers and in Dev/Test environments.
Product Terms clause
The Product Terms clause states:
Disaster Recovery and Dev/Test Environments
Customer may apply Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc to the following Operating System Environments (OSE) for no additional cost:
- Customer’s entitled Disaster Recovery OSEs associated with its underlying software licenses.
- Development, test, and related OSEs licensed with Microsoft Developer edition licenses or Visual Studio subscriptions.
More Information
Find the clause in the Product Terms, please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftAzure/EAEAS#:~:text=Disaster%20Recovery%20and,Visual%20Studio%20subscriptions.
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