{"id":1654,"date":"2019-01-27T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:46:32","slug":"aws-license-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"AWS License Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/2018\/08\/20\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional-overview\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Main Menu<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Menu<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Overview of AWS License Manager<\/li>\n<li>License Manager &#8211; Practical<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Overview of AWS License Manager<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/13309176?start=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/13309176?start=0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>AWS License Manager is a service which allows us to manage licenses from a wide variety of software vendors across AWS and on-premise.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>Purpose<\/h2>\n<p>Good for managing licenses<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OS level\n<ul>\n<li>Windows<\/li>\n<li>Red Hat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Databases\n<ul>\n<li>Oracle DB<\/li>\n<li>Windows SQL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Application licenses\n<ul>\n<li>SAP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other 3rd party licenses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Issues<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>You can launch a new instance at the click of a button<\/li>\n<li>License violation detected during an audit can result in huge penalties<\/li>\n<li>Difficult to track licenses across multiple accounts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Solutions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Enforce restrictions on using licenses to prevent spinning up new instances<\/li>\n<li>Use Cross-Account Resource Discovery to find license usage in other accounts in your organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>License Manager &#8211; Practical<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/13309196?start=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/13309196?start=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Procedure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AWS License Manager &gt; License configuration &gt; [ Create license configuration ]<\/li>\n<li>&gt; Create license configuration\n<ul>\n<li>Configuration details\n<ul>\n<li>License configuration name: ExpensiveLicense<\/li>\n<li>Description: blahblah<\/li>\n<li>License type\n<ul>\n<li>vCPUs<\/li>\n<li>Cores<\/li>\n<li>Sockets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>[ x ] Enforce license limit<\/li>\n<li>[ Submit ]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&gt; LicenseName: Associated AMIs\n<ul>\n<li>Select the AMI containing the software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Any attempts to spin up instances that exceed the license type restrictions will fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Menu Menu Overview of AWS License Manager License Manager &#8211; Practical Overview of AWS License Manager https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/13309176?start=0 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. 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