AWS License Manager
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For Agents
Track software licences across AWS accounts and on-premises servers, enforce seat limits, and manage grants and conversions.
Use for: I need to track Microsoft Windows Server licences in AWS, Get the current usage of a licence configuration, List all licence configurations in an account, Set up a licence grant for another account
Not supported: Does not handle AWS Marketplace subscriptions, IAM policies, or general resource sharing — use for software licence tracking, grants, and compliance reporting only.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for AWS License Manager, keeping it validated and agent-ready. License Manager helps AWS customers track software licences from vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP across multiple accounts and on-premises servers. The 50-endpoint API covers licence configurations, licence creation and check-in/check-out, grants for cross-account sharing, conversion tasks, report generators, and resource inventory. It enforces seat counts, BYOL workflows, and compliance reporting that compute-heavy organisations rely on for vendor audits.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the AWS License Manager to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the AWS License Manager, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with AWS License Manager API.
Create licence configurations that define seat counts and rules
Issue, check out, and check in licences via /CheckoutLicense and /CheckInLicense
Share licences across accounts with grants and grant versions
Run resource inventory across managed accounts to detect drift
Schedule licence usage reports through report generators
Convert licence types with licence conversion tasks
Tag licences and configurations for finance and audit reviews
Use Cases
Patterns agents use AWS License Manager API for, with concrete tasks.
★ BYOL Software Tracking
Track bring-your-own-licence software running on EC2 dedicated hosts and on-premises servers. License Manager configurations define rules such as core counts and tenancy, and the inventory APIs report which resources consume each licence. This gives finance and operations teams a single view of seat consumption that can be reconciled against vendor contracts.
Create a licence configuration for 'Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise' with 16 cores and ALLOWED_TENANCY_DEDICATED_HOST
Cross-Account Licence Sharing
Share centrally purchased licences with other accounts in an organisation through grants. The /CreateGrant and /AcceptGrant endpoints turn an owned licence into a delegated entitlement that another account can check out. This avoids duplicating licence configurations per account and centralises billing in one master account.
Create a grant for licence arn:aws:license-manager::123:license/abc with principal arn:aws:iam::456:root and allowed operation CheckoutLicense
Licence Audit Reporting
Generate scheduled reports that combine licence configuration usage and resource inventory for compliance reviews. The /CreateLicenseManagerReportGenerator endpoint accepts an S3 destination and frequency, after which License Manager publishes JSON or CSV reports that auditors can ingest directly. This replaces ad hoc spreadsheet collection with a repeatable pipeline.
Create a daily license report generator named 'all-licences' writing JSON to bucket 'compliance-reports' with prefix 'license-manager/'
AI Agent Licence Operations
AI agents call License Manager through Jentic to provision new licence configurations, issue grants when teams onboard new accounts, and answer compliance questions about current usage. Through Jentic, the agent searches by intent, loads the operation schema, and executes with credentials in the Jentic vault. SigV4 signing happens inside Jentic so AWS keys never enter the agent runtime.
Search Jentic for 'list license configurations', load the ListLicenseConfigurations schema, and execute with no filters
Key Endpoints
50 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for aws license manager, keeping it validated and agent-ready.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CreateLicenseConfiguration
Create a licence configuration
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CreateLicense
Issue a new licence
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CheckoutLicense
Check out a licence
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CheckInLicense
Check a licence back in
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CreateGrant
Create a grant for cross-account sharing
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.AcceptGrant
Accept a grant from another account
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CreateLicenseConfiguration
Create a licence configuration
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CreateLicense
Issue a new licence
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CheckoutLicense
Check out a licence
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CheckInLicense
Check a licence back in
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.CreateGrant
Create a grant for cross-account sharing
POST
/#X-Amz-Target=AWSLicenseManager.AcceptGrant
Accept a grant from another account
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
AWS access keys for License Manager are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Jentic performs SigV4 signing at execution time, so raw AWS secrets never enter the agent's context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'create license configuration' or 'list license usage' and Jentic returns the matching License Manager operation with its input schema, so the agent calls the right endpoint without parsing AWS docs.
Time to first call
Direct integration: 1-2 days to set up SigV4, IAM, and inventory wiring. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load the schema, execute.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using AWS License Manager API through Jentic.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for AWS License Manager?
AWS does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call AWS License Manager via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.
What authentication does the AWS License Manager API use?
License Manager uses AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4) HMAC request signing scoped to the license-manager IAM service. Through Jentic, credentials sit in the encrypted vault and signing happens at execution time so the agent never sees the raw secret.
Can I track BYOL software with the License Manager API?
Yes. CreateLicenseConfiguration defines rules such as core counts, tenancy, and licence affinity, and the inventory APIs associate covered EC2 instances, RDS instances, and on-premises hosts with each configuration so usage is tracked centrally.
How do I share a licence with another AWS account through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'create license grant', load the CreateGrant schema, submit the licence ARN, principal ARN, and allowed operations, and Jentic will sign and execute the call. The receiving account then accepts the grant via AcceptGrant.
What are the rate limits for the AWS License Manager API?
Per-region quotas apply, including default caps on licence configurations and grants per account and TPS limits on control plane operations such as CheckoutLicense. Check the License Manager service quotas in the AWS console for current values.
Can License Manager generate scheduled compliance reports?
Yes. CreateLicenseManagerReportGenerator schedules recurring reports that publish JSON or CSV to an S3 bucket. The report combines licence configuration usage with resource inventory, suitable for audit submission and finance reconciliation.
Can I check a licence in or out programmatically?
Yes. CheckoutLicense reserves an entitlement for a specified consumer with a digital signature, and CheckInLicense returns it. CheckoutBorrowLicense supports offline scenarios where the consumer keeps the entitlement for a fixed duration.
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