AWS Optimisation and Licensing

Right-sizing your license estate for cloud migration

When moving your enterprise workloads to the cloud, thorough pre-planning is essential. This is so you can optimise and achieve maximum commercial benefit, while reducing cost and risk around potential license non-compliance.

As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Version 1 is certified by AWS to support customers across all AWS cloud migration phases: Assess, Mobilise, and Migrate & Modernise.

As part of the Assess stage, Version 1’s AWS OLA will provide insights, deployment options, and potential cost savings across AWS flexible licensing options, ensuring the right license decisions are taken at the start of your migration project.

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Partnering with Version 1

Broad Expertise

We are experts in licensing and cloud deployments.

Expert
Analysis

Can review your ‘as is’ estate and right-size prior to migration.

License Specialists

Our experts have a deep understanding of the licensing considerations of moving to the cloud.

Cloud
Partner

Our AWS Migration Competency is certified by AWS to support customers across the entire cloud journey.

AWS Optimisation and License Assessment – deliverables

As part of Version 1’s AWS OLA, our license and cloud experts will deliver a report that will model your deployment opportunities using BYOL entitlement and rightsized AWS license included options. These results can help you explore potential cost savings on AWS and identify any unknown license exposure.

The license assessment includes the following deliverables:

Consult

Initial consultation with Version 1 license experts to uncover any license concerns and cloud plans.

Assess

Discovery and assessment of license entitlement and workloads for optimisation in AWS.

Analyse

Data-driven analysis and validation of cloud licensing pathways to AWS.

Report

Insights and considerations to include in your business case for the next steps towards cloud migration.

Datasheet – AWS Optimisation and License Assessment for Enterprise Workloads

Download our AWS OLA datasheet for more information on how to reduce the risk and cost of enterprise license noncompliance at the start of your cloud migration journey.

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Benefits of our approach

Steppingstone to Cloud

Effective way to begin formulating a business case for cloud migration to AWS.

Clarity on License Position

Understand the current license entitlement position as well as license mapping to AWS model.

Cost Optimisation and Avoidance

Clarity on license and consumption costs within AWS. Options for reducing and avoiding costs as part of your AWS migration.

License Flexibility

Opportunity to explore flexible licensing options with AWS.

Cloud and License Expertise

We have deep expertise across licensing and cloud enablement.

License Advice and Guidance

Expert insights on license and contract optimisation.

Optimise cost and reduce risk at the start of your cloud journey

Right-sizing your license estate for cloud migration