
Amazon EC2 CPU Options enable SAP customers with CPU-based licenses to optimize vCPU allocation to match their license count, reducing unnecessary licensing costs while maintaining required compute capacity.


<div><p>This article explains how to optimize SAP application licensing costs on AWS by customizing EC2 instance CPU configurations.</p><ul><li>SAP CPU-based licenses require one license per vCPU; default EC2 instances may have excess vCPUs</li><li>Amazon EC2 CPU Options allow customization of vCPU count at instance launch without additional charges</li><li>Reducing vCPUs through core and thread specification lowers licensing requirements proportionally</li><li>CPU Options cannot be modified after instance launch and are unsupported for SAP HANA</li><li>AWS License Manager integrates with EC2 CPU Options to enforce licensing compliance rules</li><li>License Manager supports AMIs, CloudFormation templates, and EC2 launch templates for compliance</li><li>Validate CPU configuration changes using Task Manager (Windows) or lscpu (Linux)</li></ul><p>By leveraging EC2 CPU Options and AWS License Manager, SAP customers can align compute capacity with licensing needs, reducing unnecessary license purchases while maintaining required performance.</p></div>


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