Self-managed licenses in License Manager

Self-managed licenses (formerly known as license configurations) are the core of License Manager. Self-managed licenses contain licensing rules based on the terms of your enterprise agreements. The rules that you create determine how AWS processes commands that consume licenses. While creating self-managed licenses, work closely with your organization's compliance team to review your enterprise agreements.

Self-managed licenses can be used independently within a single AWS account or cross AWS account or integrated with License asset groups for centralized management across multiple AWS accounts and regions across AWS organization. This integration provides enhanced governance, and compliance tracking for enterprise environments.

AWS services such as License Manager have service quotas that define the maximum number of resources or operations per Region that are available to your AWS account for that service. For example, with License Manager, you can have a maximum of 10 self-managed licenses per resource, with no more than 25 self-managed licenses total in any given AWS Region. To find out more about License Manager quotas, see AWS License Manager Service quotas in the AWS General Reference.