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What is an AWS Optimization Licensing Assessment (OLA)?

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Overview

Companies are leveraging the AWS Optimization Licensing Assessment (OLA) to assess and optimise current on-premises and cloud environments, based on actual resource utilisation, third-party licensing, and application dependencies.

Silicon Overdrive provides an OLA Assessment free of charge. The OLA program can be utilized by new or existing customers. New businesses that migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS) have seen:

31% average infrastructure cost savings
62% more efficient IT infrastructure management
3 x more features delivered per year
69% reduction in unplanned downtime
43% fewer security incidents per year

The AWS OLA is used to evaluate the current cost versus usage and build a migration and cloud licensing strategy accordingly. After a completed AWS OLA assessment, a business can make a data-driven decision with support from Silicon Overdrive’s highly certified AWS consultants.

AWS is a popular choice as customers have been running Microsoft Workloads on AWS for longer than a decade, longer than any other cloud provider. Not only is it the most popular hosting option for running Windows but also a secure, innovative, and reliable choice. For the 11th consecutive year, AWS has achieved remarkable success as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform services.

Using the AWS OLA will provide your business with a report that will model your deployment options, using existing licensing entitlements. These results can help you explore available cost savings across the flexible licensing options available.

Parsons Corporation (Parsons), a technology company in the infrastructure and national security market, saved 35% in annual operating costs and accelerated on their innovation by migrating to AWS. Director of Cloud and Productivity Applications, Jai Kasinathan, says their migration was seamless and simple because of the tools and the intelligence that came from Migration Evaluator and the AWS OLA.

Cloud technology is helping businesses improve their efficiency, visibility of cash flow and profitability by removing the complexity of running on the cloud and by addressing concerns based on current contracts and licensing agreements.

Businesses are benefiting from the new capabilities available in the cloud. They can action and execute on the latest cloud technology in little to no time. By having access to sophisticated data collection, analytics tools, and methodology provided by an AWS OLA, businesses can best set goals, achieve, and exceed the desired results.

How Do You Know You Need an AWS Optimization Licensing Assessment (OLA)?

Let us get started by answering the below questions first. If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may need to consider an OLA assessment to assist you to accelerate your business outcomes.

Do you need to reduce IT costs?
Do you need to improve the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?
Do you need to improve your operational efficiency?
Are you building a migration strategy or business case for a migration to the cloud?

AWS Optimization Licensing Assessment (OLA) Process

Benefits of an AWS Optimization Licensing Assessment (OLA)

Get an average of 49% savings in costs and 50% on your licence billing.
An OLA provides you with a health check on your business to gain new insights on your utilisation and licensing.
Gain an understanding of what your environment would look like on the AWS cloud.
Ability to build a clear business case for a cloud migration.
Plan your migration with minimal risk of failure.
Leverage the recommendations from an AWS OLA to get the most value from your existing licensing entitlements.
Use the results of an AWS OLA to avoid unnecessary licensing costs and vendor lock-in.
AWS OLA can also be used in combination with MAP for Windows, providing your business with tools, support, and resources during the cloud migration.
Stand to qualify for a free OLA assessment.

The Most Important Business Case You Will Make and It’s Free

Silicon Overdrive has significant experience helping customers migrate to the cloud, modernising their applications to utilise cloud-native services, securing these workloads, and delivering Managed Services to our customers.

Assessing and securing our customers’ environments and saving them money is our foremost priority. As AWS Advanced Partners and Microsoft Gold Platform Partners, with over 25 years of experience delivering Microsoft solutions, the Silicon Overdrive team is an expert on Windows workloads.

We can assist you in realising savings of up to 50% on costs for your business.

Contact us to find out how you can get started with an OLA Assessment.

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