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Dark Night
Dark Night

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Benefit of BYOL vs AWS provided licenses

Assuming that I have several launched EC2 instances that run Windows, SQL Server with AWS provided licenses. It means I don't have to pay for license. Is there any benefit to BYOL from on-premise to AWS in this case?

Thanks

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Answers (2)

nomad
nomad

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If you are currently running EC2 instances with AWS-provided licenses for Windows and SQL Server, the license costs are included in the instance pricing. However, there are potential benefits to considering a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) approach, depending on your specific circumstances:

  1. Cost Savings
  2. Control Over
  3. Licensing Support for Legacy Software
  4. Physical Host optimization

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Dennis Traub
Dennis Traub

Reputation: 51654

Assuming that I have several launched EC2 instances that run Windows, SQL Server with AWS provided licenses. It means I don't have to pay for license.

You pay for the licenses if you run Windows Server or SQL Server on EC2. They are already factored into the instance price.

If you compare the hourly price for Windows instances vs. Linux instances on the Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing page, you'll find that Windows-based instances are slightly more expensive than Linux-based instances.

For example, the hourly cost of running Windows Server on EC2 on a t3.medium instance in us-east-1 is $0.06, while running Linux on the same instance costs only $0.0416.

Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL)can save you money by enabling you to leverage your existing server-bound software license investments (e.g., Windows Server, Windows SQL Server, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) within EC2, subject to your license terms.

Having that said, to my knowledge, BYOL is only available on Amazon dedicated hosts, which are physical servers with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated to your use

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