SAP on AWS · Operating SAP on AWS

You run SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP from the AWS Marketplace under bring your own license (BYOL). Why can't License Manager just track that Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and what unit can it even measure for SAP?

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