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.)
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.
Get in touch if you want to contact us about an AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment
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