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AWS Marketplace FAQs
What is AWS Marketplace?
General
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AWS Marketplace is a curated catalog that helps you find, buy, deploy, and manage the best-fit products from thousands of AWS Marketplace Sellers. With accelerated procurement, you can reduce negotiation time and the effort to onboard new vendors. Optimize costs with flexible pricing that allows you to ease into commitments and negotiate preferred terms. Enhance governance with centralized purchasing controls and software license management.
You can start browsing thousands of seller products available in AWS Marketplace today. Visit our get started page to learn more.
Discovery and evaluation
Open all- Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products
- Container products
- Data products
- EC2 Image Builder component products
- Machine learning models and algorithms
- Professional Services
- Software as a Service (SaaS) applications
- AI agent products
AWS Marketplace offers a diverse selection of product types, including:
To learn more about each product type, visit the AWS Marketplace documentation .
Yes. AWS Marketplace offers multi-product solutions that combine products and services from one or more sellers tailored to specific industries and use cases. Streamline solution procurement with a single point of contact for negotiation, total cost assessment, and one-time approval covering all products. Then independently manage renewals and term lengths for each component.
We make product discovery convenient by delivering products to you, when and where you need them. Find the full breadth of the catalog in AWS Marketplace. Explore curated catalogs while you work in other AWS consoles or on seller websites through Buy with AWS. Bedrock Marketplace provides access to foundation models that can be purchased through AWS Marketplace. If you use Claude to find and evaluate software, access specialized AWS Marketplace features that accelerate discovery on Claude applications with the AWS Marketplace connector.
There are multiple ways to find products based on your use case. For a conversational discovery experience, use agent mode to reach informed purchasing decisions fast. Describe your use case, ask questions, compare products side-by-side, and generate customized purchasing proposals. Use our AI-enhanced search to discover solutions based on your use case and start evaluating your options on product pages or in agent mode.
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Yes, many sellers offer free trials that allow you to try the product before committing to a purchase. Free trials are clearly indicated on product listing pages. Explore popular free trials and products as part of your evaluation.
Procurement
Open allYou can quickly purchase seller products listed in AWS Marketplace, receive custom pricing and terms through private offers from sellers or Channel Partners, or bring your own license if you already have a subscription.
Utilize pay-as-you-go pricing and only pay for what you use. When you’re ready, set contract durations to meet your exact needs, from hourly to multiple years, with many long-term contracts offering discounts. For higher-value purchases, you can negotiate custom pricing and terms through private offers. For additional flexibility, you can request variable payments for professional services private offers which allow sellers to bill as work is delivered.
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AWS Marketplace is not party to the contract between you and the seller. We facilitate the transaction through our procurement processes .
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You pay AWS directly, with the option to include a purchase order (PO) number for each unique AWS Marketplace purchase if that's your preference. Your AWS Marketplace purchases default to your AWS payment method, and charges are consolidated in the same AWS account that you use to pay for your AWS services. This allows you to access and process invoices for all of your company's AWS purchases with ease through the AWS Billing and Cost Management console .
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Ask the seller to send you a private offer with the terms from the contract included. From there, you can accept the terms in the AWS Marketplace console.
Deployment
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AWS Marketplace provides pre-defined deployment experiences for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) , CloudFormation templates , container products , Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) add-ons , Helm Charts , Amazon SageMaker algorithms and models , and select SaaS products , enabling you to quickly deploy products on AWS.
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Yes, AWS Marketplace has integrations with over 10 AWS services, allowing you to discover, subscribe to, and launch products from sellers directly through the AWS service. No additional setup or AWS Marketplace access is required.
Cost management
Open allTemplated Single Pane of Glass dashboards give you insights and granular visibility into spend, agreements, and licenses. For a high level overview of your spend and agreements, access the procurement insights dashboard in the AWS Marketplace console.
Use the procurement insights dashboard or templated Single Pane of Glass dashboards to identify similar subscriptions across your organization's accounts. View agreements by seller and contracts nearing their end of term, helping you identify opportunities for consolidation.
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Purchase order (PO) management features allow you to separate AWS Marketplace transactions from your AWS infrastructure PO and allocate spend across different cost centers by assigning unique PO numbers for each AWS Marketplace transaction, including both fixed and variable costs. You can add or update PO numbers for each subscription through the AWS Marketplace console, ensuring that invoices reflect the correct PO number for streamlined payment processing and cost allocation. You can also use cost allocation tags to identify and track AWS Marketplace resource usage across cost centers through AWS Cost Explorer , AWS Cost and Usage Reports , AWS Budgets , or other cloud cost analysis tools.
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Yes, you can finance with an outside lender, directly with participating sellers, or through the financing program for AWS Marketplace .
Governance and controls
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You can control AWS Marketplace purchases within your organization using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies . By creating specific IAM roles with appropriate permissions, you can restrict who can browse, purchase, or deploy AWS Marketplace products.
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Private Marketplace lets you customize a catalog of pre-approved seller products that users in your organization can purchase, allowing your team to move fast while maintaining purchasing controls. For more specific controls, you can create unique Private Marketplace catalogs for different AWS organizational units (OUs) .
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Navigate to " Manage subscriptions " in the AWS Marketplace console to see your active subscriptions. From this dashboard, view pricing details and the end date of your active subscriptions. You can also add or update purchase order numbers for future invoices.
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Yes, AWS Marketplace offers products from sellers designed for use in regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and the public sector. Explore curated industry solutions available in AWS Marketplace.
Support
Open allFor questions about the product you purchased, contact the AWS Marketplace Seller. You can find support contact information on the product detail page.
For general AWS Marketplace support, contact AWS support .