AWS license-manager documentation change
Summary
Added documentation for License asset groups feature including workflow integration, relationship with existing features, and use case scenarios
Security assessment
The changes describe organizational license management improvements and compliance automation but do not address security vulnerabilities or introduce security-specific features. Focus is on operational efficiency and compliance reporting.
Diff
diff --git a/license-manager/latest/userguide/license-manager-overview.md b/license-manager/latest/userguide/license-manager-overview.md index 3b4b11db9..5864259ae 100644 --- a//license-manager/latest/userguide/license-manager-overview.md +++ b//license-manager/latest/userguide/license-manager-overview.md @@ -4,0 +5,2 @@ +License asset groups in the license management workflow + @@ -26 +28,3 @@ If you are responsible for managing licenses in your organization, you can use L -A licensing expert manages licenses across the entire organization, determining resource inventory needs, supervising license procurement, and driving compliant license usage. In an enterprise using License Manager, this work is consolidated through the License Manager console. As shown in the diagram, this involves setting service permissions, creating self-managed licenses, taking inventory of computing resources both on-premises and in the cloud, and associating self-managed licenses with discovered resources. In practice, this could mean associating a self-managed license with an approved Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that IT uses as a template for all Amazon EC2 instance deployments. +License asset groups extend this capability by providing organization-wide license management that works across multiple AWS regions and accounts. Instead of managing licenses individually in each region and account, License asset groups consolidate licensing information into unified views, enabling centralized oversight and automated compliance monitoring across your entire AWS Organizations. + +A licensing expert manages licenses across the entire organization, determining resource inventory needs, supervising license procurement, and driving compliant license usage. In an enterprise using License Manager, this work is consolidated through the License Manager console. As shown in the diagram, this involves setting service permissions, creating self-managed licenses, taking inventory of computing resources both on-premises and in the cloud, and associating self-managed licenses with discovered resources. With License asset groups, licensing experts can also create centralized license groups that automatically discover and track software across regions and accounts, reducing the administrative overhead of managing licenses at scale. In practice, this could mean associating a self-managed license with an approved Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that IT uses as a template for all Amazon EC2 instance deployments. @@ -29,0 +34,34 @@ License Manager saves costs that would otherwise be lost to license violations. +## License asset groups in the license management workflow + +License asset groups provide an additional layer of organization and automation to the license management workflow. While traditional license configurations work at the individual license level, License asset groups operate at the organizational level, providing consolidated views and automated management across multiple regions and accounts. + +### Relationship with existing License Manager features + +License asset groups complement and enhance existing License Manager capabilities: + + * **License Configurations** \- License asset groups can incorporate both self-managed license configurations and granted licenses, providing a unified view regardless of how licenses were originally created or acquired. + + * **Inventory Search** \- License asset groups use the same discovery mechanisms as inventory search but automate the grouping and ongoing monitoring of discovered resources based on rulesets. + + * **Usage Reports** \- License asset groups generate comprehensive reports that span multiple regions and accounts, providing organization-wide visibility that individual license reports cannot achieve. + + * **Cross-account Management** \- License asset groups are designed specifically for multi-account scenarios, working seamlessly with AWS Organizations to provide centralized license governance. + + + + +### License asset groups use case scenarios + +License asset groups are particularly valuable in the following scenarios: + + * **Multi-region deployments** \- When your organization runs workloads across multiple AWS regions and needs consolidated license tracking without managing each region separately. + + * **Multi-account organizations** \- When using AWS Organizations with multiple accounts and requiring centralized license oversight from a management or delegated administrator account. + + * **Automated compliance monitoring** \- When you need proactive license expiration notifications and automated compliance tracking across your entire AWS environment. + + * **Audit preparation** \- When you need comprehensive, organization-wide license usage reports for vendor audits or internal compliance reviews. + + + +