Microsoft licensing can be complex, causing many organizations to stick with costly legacy Microsoft and SQL Server environments because they don’t know where to look for help. Business leaders don’t always have the tools to determine their actual resource utilization requirements, modernization expertise, or cloud-optimized licensing considerations successfully.

Fortunately, through the Optimization & Licensing Assessment (OLA) program from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft users can identify areas of opportunity to right-size compute resources, cut unnecessary spending, and explore flexible licensing options. ClearScale’s Microsoft licensing specialists can evaluate your Microsoft estate and present your business with all of the options available to optimize Microsoft licensing in the cloud that are tailored to your Microsoft License Statement and modernization objectives, balanced with business goals.

Then, with ClearScale’s help, you can assess different paths forward, build a migration proof-of-concept (POC), or pursue other modernization strategies to make the most of your OLA findings. With combined resources from AWS and ClearScale, we’ll determine the best cost savings options for you in regards to your Microsoft workloads, and right-size your servers on the optimal instances on AWS.

Deliverables

Get a review of your OLA findings and determine cost savings

-Review your OLA report to determine the current consumption, cost, and provisioning of your existing Microsoft workloads

-Assess the cost savings of transforming and modernizing Microsoft workloads on AWS

-Cost/benefit analysis of move-to-managed database with licensing built in

-Consumption and cost will be determined for the entire IT estate (Linux and Microsoft), only the licensing assessment is limited to Microsoft