Accelerate Cloud Migration with AWS OLA

Gain a deeper understanding of your current licensing costs and increase efficiency while reducing costs. Amazon Web Services Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) evaluates your third-party licensing costs to help you right-size your resources, reduce costs, and explore flexible licensing options.

Your Challenge. Right-size your licensing Gain maximum value from existing licensing entitlements and adapt your on-premises licensing strategies to enable a faster cloud migration.

Software licensing costs are 3x the cost of all other costs in the cloud combined. Reasons to migrate and optimize SQL Servers on AWS:

(Source: Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) paper commissioned by Evolve Cloud Services, Reduce Licensing and Infrastructure Cost while on the Move to the AWS Cloud, April 2022.)

45% reduction in Microsoft SQL Server licensing costs.

77% reduction in Windows Server licensing cost.

98% of customers are able to migrate without additional license investments.

Benefits of AWS OLA

Assess and optimize your current on-premises and cloud environments, based on resource utilization,
third-party licensing, and application dependencies.

Right-size your resources

Build an inventory of your compute resources and utilization requirements to determine the right blend of instances,
dedicated hosts, savings plans, and other options.

Reduce costs

Explore recommendations to get the most value from your existing licensing by configuring your instances
to require fewer licenses without impacting performance.

Explore flexible licensing

Model different licensing scenarios with license included or Bring Your Own License (BYOL) instances
to pay for what you need and avoid vendor lock-in.

How we do it.

Optimization and Licensing Assessment

Asses the consumption, cost,and provisioning of your Windows workloads on-premises and in AWS

Scope Workloads

Determine prospective workloads to optimize

Collect Data

Collect utilization data for workloads, using Migration Evaluator or third-party tooling

Analyze

AWS or AWS Partners analyze the data to model costs and optimization scenarios

Plan

Review the results of your OLA and build your business case or start a migration proof-of-concept

Devoteam A Cloud Consulting Offer

With AWS OLA (Optimization and Licensing Assessment), we develop a detailed proposal for your cloud strategy and develop a migration plan for you. Therefore we perform an inventory of all compute resources including Windows instances and evaluate them holistically:

We show how an optimization of your infrastructure on AWS could look like – including the impact of license dependencies.

We forecast what costs will be incurred for your optimized IT environment on AWS and what savings potential lies behind it. To do this, we analyze your existing IT infrastructure and its utilization.