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AWS OLA

Accelerate Cloud Migration with AWS OLA.

We can support you in gaining a deeper understanding of your current licensing costs and increase efficiency while reducing costs. Amazon Web Services Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) evaluates your third-party licensing costs to help you right-size your resources, reduce costs, and explore flexible licensing options.

Right-size your licensing

Right-size your licensing.

Gain maximum value from existing licensing entitlements and adapt your on-premises licensing strategies to enable a faster cloud migration.
License costs are a significant part of total cost of ownership (TCO), limiting investing in innovation.

Analysis of 300 Optimization and License Assessments* show:

reduction in
Microsoft SQL Server
licensing costs

reduction in
Windows Server
licensing costS

of customers migrate
without additional
license investments

Savings on licensing
= 3x AWS Cloud workload costs

Benefits of OLA.

Assess and optimize your current on-premises and cloud environments,
based on resource utilization,third-party licensing, and application dependencies.

Right-size your resources

Build an inventory of your compute resources and utilization requirements to determine the right blend of instances, dedicated hosts, savings plans, and other options.

Reduce costs

Explore recommendations to get the most value from your existing licensing by configuring your instances to require fewer licenses without impacting performance.

Explore flexible licensing

Model different licensing scenarios with license included or Bring Your Own License (BYOL) instances to pay forwhat you need and avoid vendor lock-in.

HOW IT WORKS

Optimization and Licensing Assessment

Asses the. consumption, cost,and provisioning of your Windows workloads on premises and in AWS and follow 4 simple steps:

Scope workloads

Determine prospective workloads in your business to optimize
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Collect data

Collect utilization data for workloads, using Migration Evaluator or third party tooling

Analyze

We will analyze the data to model costs and optimization scenarios

Plan

Review the results of your OLA and build your business case or start a migration proof-of-concept