Software licenses can be a big part of a cloud bill, especially for commercial operating systems and databases, and waste from oversized resources can be even bigger. This lesson covers the two broad licensing models AWS offers, the special case of licenses tied to physical hardware, and rightsizing, the continuous process of matching resources to what a workload actually needs. The exam expects you to know when each licensing model makes sense and which tools recommend rightsizing changes.
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