Moving IBM workloads to AWS, Azure, or GCP doesn’t eliminate licensing obligations — it often makes them worse. This paper maps every IBM licensing restriction in cloud, identifies 8 migration traps, and provides a strategy that avoids the 2–3x cost multipliers that catch 65% of organisations.
Cloud provider licensing comparison, 8 migration traps mapped, BYOL reality check, container counting rules, ILMT cloud gaps, and 8-point migration licensing strategy.
This is not a cloud migration playbook. It’s an independent licensing analysis that gives CTOs, cloud architects, and procurement leaders the trap map, provider comparison, and strategy needed to migrate IBM workloads without creating compliance gaps that cost more than the migration saved.
Eligible Public Cloud framework, VPC counting in cloud, full-capacity vs sub-capacity rules, and the shared tenancy problem. Everything your cloud architect needs to know.
AWS vs Azure vs GCP vs IBM Cloud: BYOL eligibility, VPC counting, container support, bare metal rules, ILMT support, reporting requirements, and licence cost impact. Side-by-side table.
Sub-capacity assumption, container counting explosion, auto-scaling surge, ILMT gap, DR double-count, instance type ineligibility, reporting obligation, and S&S continuation. Each avoidable.
What BYOL permits vs what it doesn’t. Five deployment scenarios showing on-premises vs cloud licence counts — from equivalent to 30x increase. The calculation you must do before migrating.
Pre-migration assessment, instance selection, container isolation, auto-scaling caps, automated reporting, IBM Cloud evaluation, IBM term negotiation, and product replacement analysis.
100% independent. No IBM, AWS, Azure, or GCP partnership. Based on 40+ cloud migration assessments. $1.8M average compliance gap avoided. Every recommendation vendor-neutral.
Moving IBM workloads to cloud without a licensing assessment creates compliance gaps in 65% of migrations. BYOL restrictions, container counting rules, and auto-scaling can multiply your effective licence cost by 2–3x. Pre-migration assessment avoids an average of $1.8M in compliance exposure.
REDRESS COMPLIANCE — ORACLE PRACTICE