Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Author: Chase Lindeman
Chase Lindeman is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services with over 20 years of experience working with Microsoft technologies. He has expertise in running Microsoft workloads on AWS with specialization in migrations, cost optimization, and infrastructure architecture.
Gain organization-wide visibility into software licensing with AWS License Manager license asset groups
Enterprises are under increasing pressure to optimize software licensing costs, maintain vendor compliance, and make data-driven renewal decisions while managing fragmented license data across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and regions. Centralizing and governing this license data facilitates cost optimization, audit readiness, and strategic procurement planning. In this blog post, we’ll show you how […]
Simplify AWS License Manager user subscription management by sharing AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory
In this blog, we’re going to show you how AWS License Manager can leverage the directory sharing feature available from AWS Directory Services for AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) to centrally manage user subscriptions services while using multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. AWS License Manager offers you user-based subscriptions for […]
How to configure Microsoft Remote Desktop Services using user-based subscription licenses with AWS License Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the general availability of AWS provided Subscriber Access Licenses (SAL) for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS). In this blog post we are going to show you how AWS License Manager is used to provide subscription licenses for Microsoft RDS running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). What is Microsoft […]
How to optimize costs for Microsoft workloads on AWS
The Microsoft on AWS Cost Optimization (MACO) recommendation guide is a collection of cost optimization strategies designed to help you optimize both new and existing Microsoft workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers foundational training, cost optimization techniques, and reference architectures to build and automate cost-effective, high-performing workloads that meet business objectives. The MACO […]