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Author: Praveen Bhat
Praveen Bhat is an Enterprise Solutions Architect with several years of experience in the technology industry. Using his passion to bridge the gap between technology and business, he has helped organizations across a variety of industry verticals including banking, insurance, manufacturing, government, and wagering and media to achieve their business outcomes.
Centrally track Oracle database licenses in AWS Organizations using AWS License Manager and AWS Systems Manager
As you continue to run your business-critical workloads in hybrid environments, you’ll most likely face the challenges of license management of products, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM due to limited visibility and governance. You’ll most likely eventually over-provision licenses to avoid the headache with third-party license providers or under-provisioning licenses, only to face […]
Centralized software package distribution across multiple regions and accounts in an AWS Organization using AWS Systems Manager Distributor
Security remains a top priority for most organizations, and, in order to stay secure and compliant, they leverage agent-based vulnerability management tools, such as CrowdStrike, TrendMicro, and Tenable. AWS Systems Manager Distributor automates the process of packaging and publishing software to managed Windows and Linux instances across the cloud landscape, as well as to on-premises […]
Query and visualize Microsoft SQL Server license utilization using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight
In part 1 of this two-part series, I showed you how to deploy a solution to centrally track Microsoft SQL Server licenses in AWS Organizations across multiple AWS accounts and Regions. In this post, I will show you how to query and visualize the aggregated Inventory data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight to centrally manage your SQL Server licenses. With […]
Centrally track Microsoft SQL Server licenses in AWS Organizations using AWS License Manager and AWS Systems Manager
Update (March 30, 2023): The solution has been updated to support delegated administrator account in your AWS organization. Most enterprises find it hard to maintain control of the commercial licensing of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM products due to limited visibility. They wind up over-provisioning licenses to avoid the headache with third-party license providers or […]
Use AWS License Manager and AWS Systems Manager to discover SQL Server BYOL instances
Most enterprises find it hard to maintain control of the commercial licensing of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM products due to limited visibility. They wind up over-provisioning licenses to avoid the headache with third party license providers or under-provisioning licenses, only to be faced with steep penalties. If your enterprise uses AWS, you can address this […]