Grant acceptance and activation in License Manager - Amazon License Manager
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Grant acceptance and activation in License Manager

When a grant is created for a granted license, it is distributed to the recipient. A granted license must be accepted and activated before it can be used by the grant recipient. The grant activation process can include additional options for granted licenses sourced from the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.

By default, the Grant overview page for a granted license has a status of Pending Acceptance. You can choose to Accept, Accept and Activate, or Reject the grant. Grants that are accepted but not yet activated have a status of Disabled. Accepted and activated grants have a status of Active.

A granted license must be accepted and activated before it can be used by the grant recipient. By default, the grant details page for a granted license has a status of Pending acceptance. You can choose to Accept, Accept and Activate, or Reject the license. Grants that are accepted but not yet activated have a status of Disabled. Accepted and activated grants have a status of Active.

Tip

You can automatically accept grants that come from the management account of your organization. To enable grant auto-acceptance, link your organization accounts on the settings page in the Amazon License Manager console from the management account.

You can't activate two licenses for the same product from Amazon Web Services Marketplace at the same time. If you have two subscriptions (for example, the public offer for a product and a private offer, or a subscribed license for a product and a granted license for the same product), you can take one of the following actions:

  1. Disable the existing grant for the same product and then activate the new grant.

  2. Activate the new grant and specify that you want to disable and replace the existing active grant with the new grant. You can use the License Manager console or the Amazon CLI:

    1. Using the License Manager console, activate the new grant while selecting Yes that you want to replace active grants.

    2. Using the CreateGrantVersion API, activate the new grant by specifying ALL_GRANTS_PERMITTED_BY_ISSUER for the ActivationOverrideBehavior with a Status of Active.

Console

You can use the License Manager console to activate a grant. When you activate a grant sourced from the Amazon Web Services Marketplace, you might be presented with the option whether to replace active grants:

  • As a license administrator, you must specify if you want to replace active grants when activating a grant.

  • As a grantor, you can optionally specify if you want to replace active grants when you activate a grant for another account in your organization.

  • As a grantee, if the grantor creating the distributed grant didn't specify whether to replace active grants, you must make a selection when activating the grant.

To activate a grant (Console)

  1. Open the License Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Granted licenses.

  3. Choose a license ID to open the License overview page.

  4. Choose a grant name to open the Grant overview page.

  5. If presented, select an activation option for whether you want to replace active grants:

    1. No – This option will activate the grant without replacing any existing active grants for the recipient (grantee).

    2. Yes – This option will disable grants for the same product and activate a new grant for the defined recipient (grantee):

      1. A specified Amazon Web Services account.

      2. Member accounts of the specified organization OU.

      3. All member accounts of the organization.

  6. (Optional) Provide a reason for activating the grant.

  7. Enter activate into the input box, and choose Activate.

Amazon CLI

You can use the Amazon CLI to work with your granted licenses.

To work with distributed grants using the Amazon CLI: