Software asset management of computer systems and virtual instances for reporting and optimization

摘要

A software asset management service obtains software asset information from various computer systems of a service provided by a service provider and available to customers of the service provider. Based on the obtained software asset information from the computer systems, the service updates a database to specify this information. The service then receives a request to generate a report of software assets for computing resources associated with a customer of a service provider. This may cause the service to access the database to obtain the software asset information for the specified computing resources. Once the service has obtained the necessary information from the database, the service generates the requested report.