WS 2012 R2 Software Assurance with OEM

If I purchase an OEM version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (from Amazon), can I purchase and apply Software Assurance to it?
This blog post seems to suggest I can:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2006/02/27/539953.aspx
However, this page seems to suggest that it is only available through Volume Licensing:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/#tab=2
Additionally, through the Microsoft License Advisor I can only select to purchase SA if I use a volume licensing program. I was under the impression that if you use a volume license program that the copy is no longer OEM.
Can anyone clarify how and if I can add SA to an OEM version (purchased through amazon)? Thank you!

Remember that licensing is a legal agreement between you and Microsoft. Your lawyers most likely will not accept answers provided by technical resources on a technical forum. Your best recourse to get licensing questions answered is to contact
Microsoft (www.microsoft.com/licensing) or to talk to a licensing specialist at the vendor from whom you purchase the server.
A couple of points. You mention purchasing an OEM license from Amazon. You cannot purchase an OEM license without purchasing the associated server. If someone is offering an OEM license without a server, I would question that they are selling
you a legal copy. So let's assume you are also purchasing the server through Amazon. I do not believe Amazon is a server OEM, so they are most likely working on behalf of some server OEM. That server OEM would be the one to contact with your
question.
In that first video you reference, it does speak of the ability to add SA to an OEM license. But if you listen, you will hear the narrator say that adding SA grants full volume licensing rights. Though not stated explicitly, that implies the
requirement of having a volume licensing agreement in place in order to be able to add SA to an OEM license. Therefore, that then jives with the second link.
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