Running Tableau Server in the cloud bears constant risk of losing activation

(from the post) Tableau is checking to see if the host has changed. This can happen all the time in the cloud, for example GCP has a live migration feature that keeps you going even if the underlying hardware fails. Also, restarting a VM is not guaranteed to boot up on the same host. The problem: Support cannot reset the license count, until you have reached the limit (max of 3 activations), i.e. participated in a lottery and hit the jackpot by locking up your system: https://kb.tableau.com/articles/issue/error-tableau-server-i...