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Loading...A pricing model in which the cost of underlying software licensing is bundled into the per-unit rate of the cloud service, removing the need for the customer to maintain a separate licence procurement. License included pricing is convenient but typically more expensive over time than the bring your own license alternative for high-volume deployments. The federation requires the license included versus BYOL choice to be documented per workload at deployment, with the break-even analysis retained for review at the annual procurement consolidation under UFMS-001:2.4(f).
A pricing term coined by AWS RDS and similar database services in the early 2010s; the construction spread across software-bearing cloud services.
Federation members document license-included versus BYOL per workload. Break-even analysis is retained for the annual procurement consolidation. License included revenues are tracked separately in the cost-attribution model under MEV-Annex:3.2.
@misc{ifo4_glossary_license_included,
title = {{License Included}},
author = {{IFO4 Federation Editorial Board}},
howpublished = {{IFO4 Federation Glossary, slug \texttt{license-included}}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://ifo4.org/glossary/license-included},
note = {Category: FinOps; key: LicenseIncluded}
}Federation members and accredited practitioners may challenge any entry under TGS-002:1.7. Filed challenges are routed to the editorial board, triaged into the revision register, and resolved in writing on the public docket. The slug remains stable through any revision.