Types of license agreements
How do a lot of us start the journey in the public cloud? By simply pulling out a credit card? If you're just a person who wants to try some technology in the public cloud, that's OK. However, for enterprises, this isn't the way to go. Enterprises will likely have quite massive environments hosted in the cloud and therefore it's advisable to have agreements with cloud providers, ensuring the best financial offers and the safeguarding of service levels. Those are the two main reasons to obtain a license agreement:
- Financial benefits, especially for the long term
- Service level agreements, safeguarded in the license agreement
License agreements are complicated, but in essence, there are three types of agreements to start using services in the public cloud: