AWS License Manager

Manage your software licenses and fine-tune licensing costs

Benefits

Gain greater visibility and control over how software licenses are used and prevent misuse before they happen.

Save money with the maximum use of licenses, including how you track and manage licenses.

Reduce the risk of noncompliance by enforcing license usage limits, blocking new launches, and using other controls.

Increase your productivity by automating the placement, release, and recovery of hosts using host resource groups.

Use cases

Switch between license types and automate the discovery, tracking, and reporting of existing licenses.

Discover how to use License Manager

Manage a collection of Dedicated Hosts as a single entity for the bring-your-own-license (BYOL) experience with automated allocation, release, and recovery.

Learn how to host resource groups

Automate the distribution and activation of software entitlements and workloads across AWS accounts for end users.

Explore how to work with seller-issued licenses

Subscribe, manage, and track user-based licenses for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Learn more about user-based subscriptions


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