Improve engineering productivity using AWS Engineering License Management

This article discusses a new tool called Engineering License Management (ELM) developed by AWS to help engineering companies optimize the usage and cost of their Computer Aided Design and Engineering (CAD/CAE) software licenses.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The limitations of existing license management solutions in capturing granular data like user-level usage, productivity impact, and simulation capabilities for shared vs dedicated licenses.
• The unique properties of engineering licenses that make them different from enterprise licenses, such as high cost, shared usage, and high frequency check-out/check-in.
• How ELM uses detailed license server logs to provide better visibility into usage patterns, including user-level data, job waiting times, and license utilization trends.
• The potential benefits of ELM, such as identifying root causes of inefficiencies, quantifying productivity impact, enabling near real-time troubleshooting, and building an observability data lake.
• Information on how to get started with ELM as an early customer and future plans for customization and integration with AWS Professional Services and partners.