ENISA: Licensing Risks refer to:

The correct answer is D. A traditional software licensing scheme may lead to high costs or lack of compliance in cloud. For example, if software is charged on a per instance basis every time a new machine is instantiated then the cloud customer’s licensing costs may increase exponentially even though they are using the same number of machine instances for the same duration.

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AUse of country-issued drivers licenses for user identification
BCloud provider employees not maintaining operating system license files
CRisk that software company may go out of business, leading to expiration of licenses for mission
DA traditional software licensing scheme may lead to high costs or lack of compliance in cloud
ECloud provider may not have all appropriate government operating licenses

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A
15% (8)
B
2% (1)
C
4% (2)
D
74% (39)
E
6% (3)

Explanation

For example, if software is charged on a per instance basis every time a new machine is instantiated then the cloud customer’s licensing costs may increase exponentially even though they are using the same number of machine instances for the same duration.

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