Our proprietary assessment and analytics platform integrates Microsoft licensing analysis directly with infrastructure modeling — one unified view of true cost.
Empower™ is Evolve Cloud Services’ proprietary assessment and analytics platform. It integrates Microsoft licensing analysis (including current BYOL rules) directly with infrastructure modeling. This unified approach delivers accurate total cost of ownership insights and actionable recommendations that carry through migration and modernization.
•Analyzes 7 deployment models in a single assessment (EC2, RDS, EUC, VMware Renewal, NC2, FVS, Storage)
•Combines workload utilization, dependency mapping, and licensing optimization
•Generates detailed modernization roadmaps and AI-readiness recommendations
software licensing costs vs. all other cloud infrastructure combined
average reduction in Windows Server cores requiring licensing
of assessments result in fully license-compliant BYOL environments
additional compute optimization identified beyond standard rightsizing tools
Sizing and cost models for EC2 Shared Tenancy, EC2 Dedicated Hosts, VMware Cloud on AWS and SQL on RDS — comparing BYOL of existing Microsoft Volume Licensing vs. AWS License Included.
Sizing and cost models for GCP Shared Tenancy, GCP Sole Tenancy and Google Cloud VMware Engine — comparing BYOL vs. GCP License Included.
VMware has platform offerings across all three major public clouds, each with its own licensing nuances — modeled accurately for every path.
Accounts for the licensing cost increase when moving from on-premises host-based licensing to Azure’s per-VM model with a 16-core minimum per server — for a complete, accurate TCO.
