Unlock Cloud Migration ROI With Better Software Licensing Strategies

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The process of cloud migration offers several pathways, each with differing results. Often, organizations begin their transition by focusing primarily on infrastructure and operational cost savings, using these factors as their main financial justification.

However, achieving a genuine cloud-native strategy requires more than modernizing workloads or shifting infrastructure consumption practices. Organizations must critically assess their enterprise software licensing, deployment strategies, and methods of provisioning and consuming cloud infrastructure. By refining software licensing, deployment and procurement strategies, businesses can achieve significant additional savings.

This is precisely where CDW's License Evaluation and Discovery Service (LEADS) creates measurable value for organizations.

Control Your Licensing Costs

Struggling to manage your licensing costs amid complex migration decisions? CDW LEADS integrates licensing optimization into your broader cloud strategy, ensuring a more efficient migration process. This approach empowers you to focus on modernization initiatives and cloud transformation efforts while maintaining control over software expenditures.

CDW LEADS isn’t just designed for organizations at the beginning of their cloud migration journeys. It also caters to enterprises aiming to optimize resource utilization, minimize unnecessary licensing costs and dissolve rigid software agreements that no longer serve their operational needs.

How CDW LEADS Optimizes Cloud Costs

The core of CDW LEADS lies in right-sizing software, workload and application resources. Traditional methods of anticipating requirements and purchasing excessive resources years in advance are outdated.

CDW LEADS equips businesses with multiple strategies to reduce AWS cloud licensing costs, such as:

Using AWS-native services.
Adopting the bring-your-own-license (BYOL) model.
Exploring reserved instances or savings plans.
Transitioning to open-source alternatives.

Determining the best option for your organization demands well-informed decision-making, and CDW LEADS provides the expertise required to evaluate your existing infrastructure. Our team identifies optimal licensing strategies, recommends appropriate AWS services and advises on the potential use of open-source solutions to maximize cost savings.

AWS Optimization Licensing Assessment

Here are some notable findings from analyses of over 300 AWS Optimization Licensing Assessments¹:

A 45% average reduction in Microsoft SQL Server licensing costs compared to on-premises IT infrastructure.
Windows Server licensing expenses decrease by 77% on average through optimization and rightsizing.
98% of AWS customers successfully migrate without any new license investments by implementing rightsizing methods.
Cost savings on licensing are three times higher than those achieved by infrastructure rightsizing alone.

Significantly, the CDW LEADS engagement is fully funded by AWS.

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Engaging with CDW LEADS begins with thorough data discovery. Utilizing the AWS Migration Evaluator and other advanced tools, CDW’s Digital Velocity AWS Solution Architects collect critical data on existing assets, both on-premises and within the cloud.

Following this, solution architects collaborate with CDW’s software solution advisors to evaluate the collected data thoroughly. This detailed analysis ensures accurate recommendations tailored to your unique environment.

The final step of the engagement is an executive readout. During this phase, we provide insights into licensing cost savings, project future cloud expenditure and outline optimization opportunities to streamline both costs and cloud migration efforts.

Unlock the Full Potential of Your Cloud Strategy

With CDW’s LEADS engagement, organizations can manage cloud migration confidently and effectively. This structured approach addresses licensing and infrastructure inefficiencies while unlocking financial and operational benefits. By combining data-driven analysis with advanced cloud solutions, CDW LEADS sets the stage for a sustainable, cost-effective shift to cloud-native operations.

Explore how CDW LEADS can transform your cloud migration into a cost-saving, future-driven solution.