

# Sharing your licenses
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Only AMI, container, machine learning, data products and Oracle Database@AWS subscriptions have licenses that can be shared.

Subscriptions in AWS Marketplace have an **Access level** shown in the product details:
+ Products with an **Agreement** level have a license that you can use and share with other accounts in your organization. 
+ Products with an **Entitlement** level are licenses that have been shared with your account—you can use these products, but you can't share them.

AWS Marketplace supports grants, which share the use of a license directly with AWS Organizations, an AWS account, or an organizational unit using AWS License Manager. The grant activation process now includes additional options to replace grants that are activated for the same product sourced from AWS Marketplace. For more information, see [Granted licenses](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/latest/userguide/granted-licenses.html) in the *AWS License Manager User Guide*.

**Note**  
For products that are restricted to specific AWS Regions, an account you share your license with can only activate the license if the account is within an allowed Region.

## Prerequisites for license sharing
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Before you can share licenses in AWS Marketplace you must set up license sharing for your organization. Complete the following tasks to set up license sharing for your organization:
+ Give AWS Marketplace permission to manage licenses on your behalf so that it can create the associated license grants when you purchase or share your licenses. For more information, see [Service-linked role to share entitlements for AWS Marketplace](buyer-using-service-linked-roles-license-manager.md).
+ Set up AWS License Manager for first use. For more information, see [ Getting started with AWS License Manager](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/latest/userguide/getting-started.html) in the *AWS License Manager User Guide*.