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AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment

Optimize your license and compute costs before and after migration

Overview

The AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) is a complimentary program that helps you optimize migration costs. We analyze your actual resource use, third-party licensing, and application dependencies to model deployment options tailored to your environment. You'll get a comprehensive report with specific recommendations to reduce instances, right-size workloads, and maximize savings through flexible licensing options.

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Benefits

    Optimize your workloads with our tool-based discovery approach. We identify the best Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instance sizes for each workload, and recommend the right mix of on-demand, spot instances, BYOL, and savings plans for your environment.

    Cloud workloads require fewer instances and licenses due to elasticity. An AWS OLA offers 60% greater license efficiency than on-premises environments. Our recommendations help you maximize value and reduce your total cost of ownership.

    Avoid unnecessary licensing costs by modeling different scenarios—license-included or BYOL instances—for flexibility in managing seasonal workloads. Pay for what you use and get the most out of your compute and licensing costs.

Customer testimonials

Pearson

"We needed a cloud-specific solution that would suit our business-critical SQL Server applications. Using an AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA), we were able to not only find the AWS solution that was right for our applications, but also understand the most cost-effective strategy for migrating our workloads. Now that we’ve used OLA, we gained the visibility and knowledge to modernize our legacy applications—and business— on AWS."

Saleem Brahmanapalli, Vice President of Systems Engineering, Pearson

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CentralSquare Technologies

"When we needed to vacate one of our co-located data centers, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team was very responsive. They quickly gave us the total cost of ownership (TCO) of running the workloads on AWS as well as the migration path for our Windows and SQL server-based workloads. They provided assistance to our migration partner and ensured a quick and successful migration. We are saving 15% annually by migrating to AWS versus on-premises data center spend. We’re currently engaged in modernizing our workload to take advantage of managed cloud services."

Namita Jindal, CIO, CentralSquare Technologies

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Acentra Health

"Acentra Health was formed in 2023 after the merger of industry leaders CNSI and Kepro. At that time, we sought to migrate existing workloads from our two legacy data centers to AWS and build new cloud-native solutions based on an integrated cloud framework. We knew this approach would enable us to deliver maximum value and impact to our clients by improving availability and scalability, while also reducing costs. The Optimization and Assessment program (OLA) helped us on both fronts. By right-sizing on AWS, we were able to optimize compute and memory and reduce them by 37% and 18% respectively."

Dinesh Kumar, Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Services, Acentra Health

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