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• Software licenses only.
• Developed by Stromasys.
• Installed on Charon-SSP host or separate license server.
• Require the Charon-SSP VE license server software.
• Require matching Charon-SSP emulator software.
• Currently, the VE license server is only available in for cloud environments (at the time of writing: AWS, OCI, Azure, and GCP).
• Currently only available for Charon-SSP products.

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Please refer to  the Charon License Handbook (HandbooksLicensing Documentation) for details about these licenses.

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Charon-SSP Automatic Licensing for Cloud Environments

When installing a Charon-SSP Marketplace Automatic Licensing (AL) image from a supported cloud marketplace (at the time of writing AWS and OCI US), the cloud instance automatically receives a license at first launch. The license server must be reachable via a cloud-specific public IP address. The license server is operated by Stromasys.

Reason for VE Licenses

Other license types have drawbacks that prompted the development of VE licenses:

• USB dongles are by nature not suitable for cloud environments and their use in VMware environments is somewhat complex.
• Sentinel software licenses are easy to install in a cloud or VMware environment. However, their ties to hardware characteristics also make it easy to inadvertently invalidate them in such environments. Hence they are also not suited for use in cloud environments. Other Sentinel software license types do not provide the same level of license security.
• Marketplace Cloud-based automatic licensing does not allow a customer-specific environment in the cloud without Internet access. This is not suitable for many customers who require a private cloud network environment.

VE licenses are designed to enable the ease-of-use of software licenses while providing a high level of security for licensing Charon-SSP products in virtualized environments. At the time of writing, VE licenses are specific to cloud environments (currently, the VE license server is not supported in an on-premises installation).