Accessing commercial software license recommendations and details - AWS Compute Optimizer
Procedures

Accessing commercial software license recommendations and details

You can use one of the following procedures to access either the Recommendations for commercial software licenses or the License details pages in the AWS Console.

On the Recommendations for commercial software licenses page you can view the recommendations for your current licenses. On the License details page you can view the details of a specific license recommendation.

Procedures

To access the commercial software license recommendations page

  1. Open the Compute Optimizer console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/.

  2. Choose Licenses in the navigation pane.

  3. (Optional) You can also access the license recommendations from the EC2 instances page. To do this, first select the Filter by one or more properties. From the dropdown list that appears, choose the Inferred workload type property and then choose the Inferred workload type = SQL Server value.

    Note

    The current licenses listed are from the AWS Region that is currently selected, in the selected account.

  4. You can perform the following actions on the recommendations for commercial software licenses page:

    • Filter recommendations by AWS Regions, Findings, or Finding reasons. To do this, first select the Filter by one or more properties text box. Then, choose the property and a value in the dropdown list that appears.

    • Filter your recommendations by tags. To do this, select the Tag key or Tag value text box. Then, enter the key or value you want to filter your licesne recommendations by.

      For example, to find all recommendations that have a tag with the key of Owner and the value of TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.

    • View recommendations for functions in another account. To do this, choose Account, and then select a different account ID.

      Note

      If you're signed in to a management account of an organization and trusted access with Compute Optimizer is enabled, you can view recommendations for resources in other accounts. For more information, see Accounts supported by Compute Optimizer and Trusted access for AWS Organizations.

    • Clear the selected filters. To do this, choose Clear filters next to the filter.

To access the commercial software license details page

  1. Open the Compute Optimizer console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/.

  2. Choose Licenses in the navigation pane.

  3. Choose the Instance ID you want to view detailed information.

  4. You can perform the following actions on the details page:

    • On the utilization graphs, you can hover over the graph to see exact values on specific dates over the analysis period.

    • To change the time range of the graphs, choose Time Range, and then choose Last 24 hours, Last 3 days, Last week, or Last 2 weeks.

      Choosing a shorter time range displays the data points at a higher granularity, which provides a higher level of detail.

    • To change the statistic value of the graphs, choose Statistics, and then choose Average or Maximum.