If you are responsible for managing licenses in your organization, you can use License Manager to set up licensing rules, attach them to your launches, and keep track of usage.

The following diagram illustrates the distinct but coordinated duties of license administrators, who manage permissions and configure License Manager, and users, who create, manage, and delete resources through the Amazon EC2 console. Appropriately restricted access to operations that consume licenses.An expert understanding of language in enterprise licensing agreements.This includes a variety of software products from Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, and other vendors.Įffective software license management relies on the following: License Manager supports tracking any software that is licensed based on virtual cores (vCPUs), physical cores, sockets, or number of machines. Using License Manager along with AWS Systems Manager, you can manage licenses on physical or virtual servers hosted outside of AWS. License Manager integrates with Amazon EC2, allowing you to track licenses for the following resources: Track BYOL software obtained from the AWS Marketplace.License Manager helps you manage licenses for the following: A reporting dashboard provides ongoing visibility into license usage and assists with vendor audits.

With rule-based controls on the consumption of licenses, administrators can set hard or soft limits on new and existing cloud deployments, stopping non-compliant server usage before it happens. License Manager reduces the risk of licensing overages and penalties with inventory tracking that is tied directly into AWS services. As you build out cloud infrastructure on AWS, you can save costs by using bring-your-own-license (BYOL) opportunities, that is, by repurposing your existing license inventory for use with cloud resources. All rights reserved.ĪWS License Manager streamlines the process of bringing software vendor licenses to the cloud. Privacy | Site Terms | © 2021, Amazon Web Services, Inc.

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