I work for a software and services company. We are looking at setting up a Windows Remote Desktop Services system on Azure (or AWS, we haven't 100% decided yet) that will be accessed by some of our customers. I know that we will need RDS CALs for this (as Azure does not provide any), but it is much cheaper for us to use RDS Device CALs for our customers than it is for us to use RDS User CALs. The software we will be providing to our customers (which happens to be our own internally developed software) is used in an environment where the computers (and software) are used by multiple people throughout the day. For example, there could be a single computer at the customer's site that will need access to the software through RDS, but there could be 10 actual people using that computer at different times of the day. In this example, I was hoping we could purchase 1 RDS Device CAL as opposed to 10 RDS User CALs.
In digging through the Microsoft Product Use Terms and Licensing information, I see that if we purchase RDS CALs with Software Assurance, we gain the License Mobility benefit, which allows us to deploy the licenses on a server from an Authorized Mobility Partner (i.e., Azure in this case). I see, however, that this documentation seems to only call out RDS*User* CALs, but do not see anything about RDS*Device* CALs. My question: Do the RDS Device CALs fall under the same rules as the RDS User CALs, or can RDS Device CALs not be used in this way?