# Targeted business outcomes
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This guide can help you and your organization achieve the following business outcomes:
+ Learn how to use an AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) to assess and optimize your current on-premises and cloud environments, based on resource utilization, third-party licensing, and application dependencies.
+ Develop a business case for cost optimization by using the AWS Modernization Calculator for Microsoft Workloads.
+ Optimize costs for your specific Microsoft workloads, including workloads for Windows on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), SQL Server, containers, storage, Active Directory, and .NET.