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The way AWS Marketplace licensing works with AMIs technically is that when an EBS volume is created from the snapshot included in the AMI, the marketplace product code included in the snapshot's metadata (not the content of the disk) will be included in the metadata of the created EBS volume.
What the prescriptive guidance document you linked to means is that when you tell MGN to create the EBS volume to serve as your migrated server's boot disk from a specific, licence-included marketplace AMI, what MGN will technically do is create the volume from the snapshot in the licensed AMI, thereby including the product code in the EBS volume's metadata. MGN will replicate all the binary content (including the operating system drive) from your source system, and nothing will remain of the AMI except the product code stamped on the EBS volume in its metadata.
This is also why the licence code doesn't disappear when you create your own AMI to serve as a backup and later create a new EC2 instance from your own AMI. The original marketplace product code will have been included in the snapshot you created for your custom AMI, and the product code will get stamped on the EBS volume created from that custom AMI.
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