AWS License Manager
Manage your software licenses and fine-tune licensing costs
Unlimited access
with the AWS Free Tier
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.
How it works
License Manager makes it easier for you to manage your software licenses from vendors, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM, across AWS and your on-premises environments.
Use cases
Streamline license management
Switch between license types and automate the discovery, tracking, and reporting of existing licenses.
Simplify the Windows BYOL experience
Manage a collection of Dedicated Hosts as a single entity for the bring-your-own-license (BYOL) experience with automated allocation, release, and recovery.
Control AWS Marketplace license entitlements
Automate the distribution and activation of software entitlements and workloads across AWS accounts for end users.
Manage user-based license subscriptions
Subscribe, manage, and track user-based licenses for Microsoft Visual Studio on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
How to get started
Start using AWS License Manager
Follow the guide to learn how to use License Manager.
Watch how to control license use
Learn how to configure licensing rules and manage licenses.
Explore AWS License Manager
See how to stay compliant, manage entitlements, and more.