Posted On: Dec 20, 2023
AWS Marketplace launched BatchDescribeEntities API for users of Catalog API. With this launch, private marketplace admins and sellers, including ISVs, Channel Partners, and Aggregators can get detailed information on multiple entities at once, thereby improving ease of integration, decreasing latency and increasing performance of the applications built on top of Catalog APIs.
Until now, to load a page that lists entities (e.g., product, offers, resale authorizations, experiences) or even to get details on multiple entities, sellers and private marketplace admins had to query ListEntities API to find the entity IDs of entities they are looking for and query DescribeEntity API with each entity ID to get details of each entity. This multi-step process decreased efficiency and increased latency in the applications that are built on top of Catalog API. With this release, sellers can reduce the number of calls they make to DescribeEntity API by querying BatchDescribeEntities API to get details on multiple entities (max of 20) in a single call, thereby improving ease of integration, decreasing latency and increasing performance.
To learn more about BatchDescribeEntities API, see here.