Working with License Manager
License Manager can be applied to standard scenarios for enterprises with a mixed infrastructure of AWS resources and on-premises resources. You can create self-managed licenses, take inventory of your license-consuming resources, associate self-managed licenses with resources, and track inventory and compliance.
Licensing for AWS Marketplace products
Using License Manager, you can now associate licensing rules to AWS Marketplace BYOL AMI products via Amazon EC2 launch templates, AWS CloudFormation templates, or Service Catalog products. In each case, you benefit from centralized license-tracking and compliance enforcement.
Note
License Manager does not change how you obtain and activate your BYOL AMIs from Marketplace. After launching, you must provide a license key obtained directly from the seller to activate any third-party software.
Tracking licenses for resources in on-premises data centers
With License Manager, you can discover applications running outside of AWS with the Systems Manager inventory
Differentiate between license included and BYOL
With License Manager, you can identify which resources have a license that is included with the product and which use a license that you own. This enables you to accurately report how you are using BYOL licenses. This filter requires SSM version 2.3.722.0 or later.
License Manager across your AWS accounts
License Manager enables you to manage licenses across your AWS accounts. You can create license configurations once in your AWS Organizations management account and share them across your accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager or by linking AWS Organizations accounts using License Manager settings. This also enables you to perform cross-account discovery to search inventory across your AWS accounts.
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