Document history for License Manager - Amazon License Manager
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Document history for License Manager

The following table describes the releases of Amazon License Manager.

Change Description Date
Added support for Amazon RDS for Db2 vCPU-based BYOL licenses License Manager added support for Amazon RDS for Db2 vCPU-based BYOL licenses. March 20, 2024
License type conversions for Ubuntu LTS subscriptions License Manager added support for Ubuntu LTS instances to use license type conversion to add a Ubuntu Pro subscription. April 20, 2023
Replace active grants License Manager added functionality to optionally replace active grants for a granted license during grant activation. March 31, 2023
Amazon CloudWatch metrics License Manager now emits CloudWatch metrics for license configuration usage and subscriptions. December 21, 2022
Distribute entitlements to organizational units Distribute entitlements to specific a specific OU in your organization. November 17, 2022
Organization wide view (console) Manage granted licenses across your accounts in Amazon Organizations using the License Manager console. November 11, 2022
Record and submit license usage data (console) Record and submit license usage data using the License Manager console. March 28, 2022
License type conversion (console) Change your license type between Amazon provided licensing and Bring Your Own License model (BYOL) using the License Manager console without redeploying your existing workloads. November 9, 2021
License type conversion (CLI) Change your license type between Amazon provided licensing and Bring Your Own License model (BYOL) using the Amazon CLI without redeploying your existing workloads. September 22, 2021
Sharing entitlements Share managed license entitlements with your entire organization with one request. July 16, 2021
Usage reports Track the history of your license type configurations with License Manager usage reports. Usage reports were formerly called report generators and license reports. May 18, 2021
Automated discovery exclusion rules Exclude instances from License Manager automated discovery based on Amazon account IDs and tags. March 5, 2021
Managed entitlements Track and distribute license entitlements for products purchased from Amazon Web Services Marketplace and sellers who use License Manager to distribute licenses. December 3, 2020
Automated accounting for uninstalled software Configure automated discovery to stop tracking instances when software is uninstalled. December 3, 2020
Tag-based filtering Search your resource inventory using tags. December 3, 2020
AMI association scope Associate your self-managed licenses and the AMIs shared with your Amazon account. November 23, 2020
License affinity to host Enforce license assignment to dedicated hardware for a specific number of days. August 12, 2020
Track Oracle deployments on Amazon RDS Track license usage for Oracle database engine editions and licensing packs on Amazon RDS. March 23, 2020
Host resource groups Configure a host resource group to enable License Manager to manage your Dedicated Hosts. December 1, 2019
Automated software discovery Configure License Manager to search for newly installed operating systems or applications and attach the corresponding self-managed licenses to the instances. December 1, 2019
Differentiate between license included and bring your own license Filter your search results based on whether you are using licenses provided by Amazon or your own licenses. November 8, 2019
Attach licenses to on-premises resources After you attach licenses to an on-premises instance, License Manager periodically collects software inventory, updates licensing information, and reports usage. March 8, 2019
Amazon License Manager initial release Initial service launch November 28, 2018