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EC2 Dedicated Hosts User Guide

Describes key concepts of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts and provides instructions for using the service. Learn how to launch different instance sizes on a host, share hosts across accounts, automatically recover hosts, and more.

AWS License Manager User Guide

Describes key concepts of AWS License Manager and provides instructions for configuring preferences to allocate and manage Dedicated Hosts on your behalf to simplify the management experience.

What's new

09/14/2021
 
04/08/2020
 
03/24/2020
 
12/01/2019
 
11/28/2018

Blogs

Optimize costs by up to 70% with new Amazon T3 Dedicated Hosts
by Andy Ward, 09/14/2021

Simplified Bring-Your-Own-License experience using AWS License Manager
by Harshitha Putta, 03/26/2020

Mechanisms to govern license usage with AWS License Manager
by Harshitha Putta, 02/26/2020

A New, Simplified, Bring-Your-Own-License Experience for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server
by Steve Roberts, 12/02/2019

Using AWS License Manager to track your Microsoft SQL Server licenses
by Dean Suzuki, 05/02/2019 

Videos

Customer success

Xero Saves 30% on their SQL Server Licensing Costs with AWS (1:42)
Pearson Simplifies Licensing Costs by Moving their SQL Server Workloads to AWS (8:04)

Webinar

Microsoft Licensing on AWS (51:41)
Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) on AWS Made Easier (35:09)

Service demonstration

How do I migrate a Dedicated Host or Dedicated Instance to another Dedicated Host? (3:30)
AWS License Manager Service Overview (6:59)
How to manage BYOL licenses across multiple AWS accounts (4:19)
How to enforce BYOL licensing rules in AWS License Manager (5:54)

Selected event sessions

AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: What’s new in compute? (55:16)
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to cost-optimize your Microsoft workloads on AWS (58:45)
AWS re:Invent 2018: Learn about 10 Years' of Windows & .NET on AWS with 10 New Launches! (58:33)
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