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Overview of AWS License Manager

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Overview

AWS License Manager is a service which allows us to manage licenses from a wide variety of software vendors across AWS and on-premise.

We can enforce policies for licenses based on various factors like CPU, Sockets, etc. that will control the number of EC2 instances which can be launched.

Purpose

Good for managing licenses

• OS level
  • Windows
  • Red Hat
• Databases
  • Oracle DB
  • Windows SQL
• Application licenses
  • SAP
• Other 3rd party licenses

Issues

• You can launch a new instance at the click of a button
• License violation detected during an audit can result in huge penalties
• Difficult to track licenses across multiple accounts

Solutions

• Enforce restrictions on using licenses to prevent spinning up new instances
• Use Cross-Account Resource Discovery to find license usage in other accounts in your organization.

License Manager – Practical

https://www.udemy.com/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional/learn/v4/t/lecture/13309196?start=0

Procedure

• AWS License Manager > License configuration > [ Create license configuration ]
• > Create license configuration
  • Configuration details
    • License configuration name: ExpensiveLicense
    • Description: blahblah
    • License type
      • vCPUs
      • Cores
      • Sockets
    • [ x ] Enforce license limit
    • [ Submit ]
• > LicenseName: Associated AMIs
  • Select the AMI containing the software
• Any attempts to spin up instances that exceed the license type restrictions will fail.