AWS License Manager
AWS License Manager is a service on Amazon Web Services that centralizes the tracking and management of software licenses across an organization’s environment. It supports a Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) model so customers can bring existing licenses for third-party workloads, such as Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server, into AWS, and it works with AWS Systems Manager to manage licenses on physical or virtual servers hosted outside of AWS. Combined with AWS Organizations, it also allows cross-account visibility of licensed computing resources across the organization.
Key points
- Centralizes usage tracking for software licenses across the environment, helping prevent over-deployment.
- Supports Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) for third-party workloads such as Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server.
- Lets administrators create customized licensing rules that help prevent licensing violations (using more licenses than the agreement allows).
- Provides a dashboard giving administrators visibility and control over all licenses.
- Allows administrators to specify Dedicated Host management preferences for allocation and capacity utilization, integrating with Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts.
- Managed entitlements give software vendors (ISVs) and administrators built-in controls to assign licenses to approved users and workloads.
- Granted licenses govern the use of licenses acquired from AWS Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange, or directly from a seller integrated with managed entitlements — AWS Marketplace buyers get automatic license creation and account-level visibility for products subscribed to across the Marketplace catalog.
- License asset groups centrally manage and track licenses across multiple AWS Regions and accounts within an organization, superseding the older single-account self-managed license configurations for multi-account scenarios.
- Works with AWS Systems Manager to manage licenses on physical or virtual servers hosted outside of AWS.
- Works with AWS Organizations to manage licenses centrally across all organizational accounts.