Now we have two license configurations created and the current license consumption is zero for both. Since these licenses are bound to physical cores, hile creating license configuration, make sure to select license type as core and tenancy as Dedicated Host. Follow the steps to create License Configuration.

Let’s create two License Configurations based on Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server licensing terms. Based on the terms of your license agreements and compliance requirements, you can specify licensing rules in License Configuration.

Create a host resource group specifying how you want EC2 to manage your Dedicated Hosts.įor example, consider you’ve already purchased Microsoft software and want to bring your own licenses to the AWS Cloud.Attach the license configuration to the Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and.Host resource groups can be configured with three easy steps that an administrator can perform.

They give you flexibility to use your licenses better and the option to designate hosts to be exclusively used by your licenses. They allow customers to define preferences to automate Dedicated Host management tasks like host allocation, host release, host recovery, and instance placement. A host resource group is a collection of Dedicated Hosts that can be managed together as a single entity using your specified preferences. The following sections of this blog explain how managing Dedicated Hosts has become easier with AWS License Manager’s simplified BYOL feature.Īmazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts allow you to use your existing per-socket, per-core, or per-VM software licenses that are bound to VMs, sockets, or physical cores, subject to your license terms. You can enjoy the flexibility and cost effectiveness of using your own licenses on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts, but with the simplicity, resiliency, and elasticity of Amazon EC2. AWS License Manager’s simplified Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) experience allows you to effectively govern and manage software licenses, such as Windows and SQL Server, that require a dedicated physical server.

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