{"id":3640,"date":"2026-04-07T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudamize.com\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:14:34","slug":"unlocking-cloud-savings-reduce-license-costs-by-optimizing-cores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudamize.com\/en\/unlocking-cloud-savings-reduce-license-costs-by-optimizing-cores\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Cloud Savings: Reduce License Costs by Optimizing Cores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A migration to Cloud presents a massive opportunity for organizations to optimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of their IT estate. However, licensing \u2014 particularly for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server \u2014 can often become an unexpected cost burden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloudamize has helped thousands of companies navigate this complexity, and now, a recent AWS development offers a significant new avenue for savings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px;\"><strong>The License Challenge in the Cloud<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the cloud, you typically have two options for software licensing:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bring Your Own License (BYOL):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Utilizing existing licenses, often offering flexibility.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>License-Included Instances:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Purchasing OS and software licenses directly as part of your cloud virtual machine. This is often the simplest option but has lacked flexibility<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years, AWS has allowed customers using <\/span><b>BYOL SQL Server licenses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to reduce the number of available cores on a machine, thereby directly reducing the licensing cost. And, for years, Cloudamize has been able to accurately recommend the optimum number of cores in these cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px;\"><strong>A Game-Changing Update from AWS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In late 2025, AWS announced a pivotal update: the ability to reduce cores (and therefore, license costs) now applies to both Windows Server and SQL Server<\/span><b> licenses-included instances.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This drastically expands the opportunity for cost reduction across a much wider range of cloud deployments, as Customers no longer have to bring their own licenses to take advantage of the cost savings associated with reducing cores. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/about-aws\/whats-new\/2025\/10\/amazon-ec2-optimize-cpu-license-included-instances\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the official AWS announcement<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px;\"><strong>Why Core Reduction is Essential for Optimization<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The underlying issue is that cloud instance sizing often requires a mismatch between resources:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A workload&#8217;s <\/span><b>network, RAM, and I\/O<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> requirements might demand a large instance size (e.g., an r7i.4xlarge).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This large instance comes with a fixed number of CPU cores (e.g., 16 cores) to meet the non-CPU requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the actual <\/span><b>workload processing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> might only need a fraction of those available cores (e.g., 10 cores).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since Windows and SQL Server licenses are tied to the number of virtual cores, you end up paying for licenses on cores you don&#8217;t actually use.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px;\"><strong>Cloudamize Delivers Deeper Savings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloudamize now fully supports core reduction for both Windows Server and SQL Server licenses-included instances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our <\/span><b>Cloudamize Assessment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is designed to identify and execute this optimization. Over a two-week period, we collect performance data to determine the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">true<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in-cloud resource needs for each workload. This analysis pinpoints exactly how many cores are required versus how many are provisioned, revealing the precise opportunity for core reduction and license savings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px;\"><strong>Customer Success Story:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 144px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 144px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 77.299%; height: 144px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent Cloudamize assessment of 1,619 servers helped a customer achieve substantial cloud savings:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><b>$2.0 Million<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in license fees via reduced core optimization.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><b>$14.6 Million<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> saved through Cloudamize workload right-sizing.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 22.701%; height: 144px; border-left: 3px solid #fab41e; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 56pt;\">&gt;$16M<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: -20px; line-height: 0.8; padding: 0 20px;\">Total Cloud Savings<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Customer Estate and Core Reduction Impact<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The customer&#8217;s 1,619-server estate included: 1,231 Windows Servers (without SQL), 216 Windows Servers with SQL Server, and 172 Linux servers.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 130px; width: 99.8519%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: none;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px; background-color: #000; color: #fff; font-size: 22px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.0445%; height: 24px; padding: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Server Type<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.5632%; padding: 5px; background-color: #fab41e; color: #000000; border-left: 1px solid #ffffff; height: 24px; text-align: left; font-size: 22px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Number of Servers<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.105%; padding: 5px; background-color: #fab41e; color: #000000; border-left: 1px solid #ffffff; text-align: left; font-size: 22px; height: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Total Cores Before<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.3976%; padding: 5px; background-color: #fab41e; color: #000000; border-left: 1px solid #ffffff; text-align: left; font-size: 22px; height: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Total Cores After<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 9.75967%; padding: 5px; background-color: #fab41e; color: #000000; border-left: 1px solid #ffffff; text-align: left; font-size: 22px; height: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cores Reduced<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.6299%; padding: 5px; 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border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef; border-left: 1px solid #000000; padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; height: 24px;\">718<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10.6299%; border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef; border-left: 1px solid #000000; padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; height: 24px;\">$289,325<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 29px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.0445%; border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 5px 5px 0px; vertical-align: top; height: 29px;\"><strong>SQL Server Enterprise<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.5632%; border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef; border-left: 1px solid #000000; padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; height: 29px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">78<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.105%; border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef; border-left: 1px solid #000000; padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; height: 29px;\">1,768<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.3976%; border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef; border-left: 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