SPIKE: Using AWS Licencing

[SimonPPledger]

User Story

As a software licence manager I need to understand our licencing costs. Currently we often need to run processes to identify Oracle licence costs. This spike is to look at whether the AWS licencing manager will make this easier (AWS think it will).

The relevant SLM is Tina Toor

User Type(s)

Value

This will enable us to understand our costs and either ensure we have the necessary budget - or look at how we make savings

Assumptions / Hypothesis / Questions / Unknowns

If we use AWS licence manager we will easily be able to track our costs

Definition of done

• [ ] We determine whether AWS licence manager can provide required functionality
• [ ] we determine steps required to implement and we estimate level of effort required OR
• [ ] we clearly state why it will not work

Reference

How to write good user stories

[SimonPPledger]

There was a planned workshop with AWS to go through this, but we don't think it is needed. But here are some notes from AWS

"These blogs form a basis for what we are building out:

The collection of the data - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/centrally-track-oracle-database-licenses-in-aws-organizations-using-aws-license-manager-and-aws-systems-manager/

The visualizing of the data through quicksight - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/query-and-visualize-microsoft-sql-server-license-utilization-using-amazon-athena-and-amazon-quicksight/"

[SimonPPledger]

This is being looked at at an organisation level