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A license is a usage agreement between you and a software vendor. To use licensed software provided by Google Cloud, you must have a license. For example, if you are running a licensed operating system (OS) on a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance, you must have a license for that OS.
A license string is a resource that associates a usage agreement with a licensed OS, OS upgrade, or additional software. For a list of the license strings that are associated with each OS that is supported by Compute Engine, see Operating system details. To learn how to view and manage license strings, see Manage licenses.
License types and pricingLicenses on Compute Engine are one of the following types. For information about which license types apply to each OS version, see the license section of the Operating system details page.
Google Cloud charges for usage. Cost varies depending on the OS. For more information, see pricing for premium images.
The Google-provided image contains enhancements that might not be included if you bring your own OS image.
Google Cloud does not charge you because you have a previous agreement with the original OS vendor. If you have BYOL licenses for server or client versions of Windows, you must use sole-tenant nodes.
License strings for BYOL and BYOS end with byol or byos. If the license string does not end with byol or byos, the license is a free or on-demand/PAYG license.
For more information about using BYOS and BYOL licenses on Compute Engine, review the following:
The following Ubuntu versions have reached the end of maintenance:
If you need further updates for these versions, you must upgrade and append a user license for Ubuntu Pro. For information about how to upgrade and append a user license, see Upgrade from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Pro.
You can install SQL Server on Linux VMs and use PAYG licenses. For more information, see Add a SQL Server license to an existing Linux server.
Learn more about premium operating systems:
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