EVOLVE Cloud Services in partnership with Amazon Web Services offers an AWS fully-funded Optimization & Licensing Assessment (OLA) to help customers optimize their Microsoft licensing costs, mitigate audit compliance risk, lower existing AWS costs as well as understand total costs for moving new workloads to AWS

The Process

• An independent assessment from a software audit advisory expert without any software publisher bias or oversight
• Deployment of industry leading tool to collect baseline data & performance measurements for the duration of the engagement
• Review of existing Enterprise Agreement and other Microsoft Licensing Agreements to reduce costs & provide a detailed review of how recent Microsoft licensing use right changes can impact existing and future workloads
• Understand your Licensing Position for both your existing AWS & on-premises environments

The Value

• Avoid the license compliance traps that recent Microsoft licensing rule changes can cause
• A detailed roadmap for how you can & can’t use existing volume licenses in AWS
• Understanding the Pros/Cons & costs of bringing existing Microsoft volume licenses versus using AWS License Included
• Microsoft Windows & SQL Server licensing cost optimization recommendations
• Great for preparing for Enterprise Agreement true-ups, renewals or to just get a no cost, no risk assessment of your Microsoft licensing position
• AWS instance sizing, pricing and application dependency details for moving on-premises workloads to AWS

For additional information on how you can receive a fully-funded Optimization & Licensing Assessment (OLA) through AWS and Evolve Cloud Services, please contact us