Bring Your Own License and Cloud Cost Management

This document is a guide that outlines the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) process, which allows organizations to leverage existing software licenses in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. It details the challenges faced by software asset managers in ensuring compliance with major software vendors like Microsoft and Oracle across hybrid infrastructures. The guide emphasizes the importance of understanding licensing compliance when transitioning to cloud services and provides strategies for managing software costs and risks associated with these transitions. It also discusses the role of automation in software asset management and the use of a license and cloud cost simulator to estimate costs and build business cases for moving resources to the cloud. Additionally, it highlights the capabilities of ServiceNow Discovery in identifying licenses across multiple environments and ensuring compliance through reconciliation processes.