The software charge sits on top of the underlying Windows EC2 cost, which is already higher than Linux, so model both together before you commit to a large fleet. The hourly model suited our autoscaling pattern, but if you run steady, always-on servers it is worth pricing out annual or reserved EC2 commitments alongside it rather than assuming hourly is cheapest. For us, the per-hour charge was easy to justify against the labor we removed, but I would advise running a short pilot on your actual instance mix to get a real per-server number before standardizing on it.
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The software charge sits on top of the underlying Windows EC2 cost, which is already higher than Linux, so model both together before you commit to a large fleet. The hourly model suited our autoscaling pattern, but if you run steady, always-on servers it is worth pricing out annual or reserved EC2 commitments alongside it rather than assuming hourly is cheapest. For us, the per-hour charge was easy to justify against the labor we removed, but I would advise running a short pilot on your actual instance mix to get a real per-server number before standardizing on it.