Licensing Requirements and Eligible Software Programs
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a hosting service provided by Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.
If you have acquired software license entitlements under IBM's International Passport Advantage or Passport Advantage Express Agreements (collectively PA or PA Program), you may have the ability to run eligible IBM software programs in Amazon EC2 Instances using the bring your own software and license (BYOSL) model, providing you meet the licensing and record keeping requirements below.
Licensing Requirements and Eligible Software Programs
The bring your own software and license ("BYOSL") option allows customers to bring and upload Eligible IBM software Programs on the Amazon EC2, provided customer complies with the Program use requirements and has sufficient quantities of PA software license entitlements (Entitlements). Only the IBM Software listed as "eligible" in the "Table of Eligible BYOSL Software Programs" below may be uploaded to an Instance. When customer uses Entitlements for a Program under this BYOSL option in an Amazon EC2 Instance, those Entitlements are dedicated to that Instance and customer may not use such Entitlements outside the Instance.
Program use requirements. Customer is responsible to:
- have accepted and remain in compliance with all terms of the applicable PA Agreement covering the Entitlements;
- have accepted and remain in compliance with the PA Attachment for Sub-Capacity Licensing Terms; and
- maintain a written record of any use of Entitlements with the Amazon EC2 services
Eligible BYOSL Software Programs
For customers uploading software Programs for use on the Amazon EC2 under the BYOSL option, the list of Eligible Programs is set forth in the table below by category of software Program. The number of Entitlements required for each such Program is based on the license metric use authorization definition set forth in the License Information document for that Program, as modified in the License Metric Definitions below.
- Table of Eligible BYOSL Software Programs
All software Programs made available under PA, if authorized use is governed by the PVU license metric
All other IBM software Programs are not eligible for BYOSL use on the Amazon EC2.
License Metric Definitions
For each software Program, the license metric definition included in the Program License Information governs the use of the software Program, except as provided below by license metric. The Program License Information is part of the IBM International Program License Agreement for the IBM Program.
For software Programs which are licensed by 'PVU', the table below lists the number of PVU Entitlements required per IBM Program for each Amazon EC2 Instance Type currently available as of the table publish date. Charges for the Amazon Web Services EC2 service are separate and remain the responsibility of the customer.
PVU licenses required per IBM Program for each Amazon EC2 Instance Type
|
Amazon EC2 Instance type (a) |
Number of Virtual Cores |
PVUs required per Instance type (b) |
| Standard Instances | ||
| Small instance | 1 | 50 |
| Large instance | 2 | 100 |
| Extra large instance | 4 | 200 |
| High-Memory Instances | ||
| High-Memory Extra Large | 2 | 100 |
| High-Memory Double Extra Large | 4 | 200 |
| High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large | 8 | 400 |
| High-CPU Instances | ||
| High CPU Medium | 2 | 100 |
| High CPU Extra Large | 8 | 400 |
Table publish date: August 2, 2010
- For more details see Instance Types at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- For purposes of IBM Express Middleware Programs which have PVU based maximum authorized use limits per server, an Instance Type is equivalent to a server. See IBM Express Middleware Licensing Guide for a summary of PVU limits by Program
PVU licensing requirements per EC2 Instance are subject to change without notice.
Record Keeping Requirements
Customers who choose to acquire PA Entitlements for the BYOSL use option on the Amazon EC2, must have accepted and remain in compliance with the PA Attachment for Sub-capacity Licensing Terms (Sub-capacity Attachment), and maintain a written record of any use of Entitlements as set forth below:
Sub-capacity Licensing is required for all software Programs licensed by PVU, if such Programs are uploaded to the Amazon EC2.
For information about Sub-capacity Licensing, including where to find the Sub-Capacity Attachment, how to accept sub-capacity terms, and other frequently asked questions, see the 'Sub-capacity Licensing' link on the right hand navigation bar. The Amazon EC2 is an Eligible Virtualization Environment, but it is not supported by the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT).
As described under Section 4 of the Sub-capacity Attachment, customers agree to install and configure the most current version of ILMT...and generate Audit Reports in accordance with Sub-capacity Licensing terms, unless one of the four listed exceptions are met. If customers meet one of these four exceptions, including when ILMT does not yet support the Eligible Virtualization Environment. customers agree to manually prepare Audit Reports documenting the Virtualization Capacity by Eligible Product for the Amazon EC2 Virtualization Environment during each calendar or fiscal quarter. In any case, Audit Reports must be prepared as frequently as is required to maintain a history of increases to Virtualization Capacity, but not less than once per quarter, and must be maintained for at least two years and made available to IBM upon request.