Category: Software

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that enables qualified Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to market software solutions and makes it easy for AWS customers to find, buy, and deploy software on AWS. In this post, I will explain a use case where CloudFormation template is a better fit than a Single-AMI solution, and then I […]

Overview AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog of software solutions from independent software vendors (ISVs) that offer a variety of pricing options, including SaaS contracts, hourly billing, annual licenses, and private offers for their software products. Almost half of these AMI products offer annual subscription options, so customers often ask me how to know when […]

In this post, I will show you how to automate the installation of software from AWS Marketplace onto your golden AMI using Private Image Build, a new feature of AWS Marketplace currently in public beta. A “golden AMI” or “gold image” is an AMI you standardize through configuration, consistent security patching, and hardening. It also contains agents […]

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that provides a range of subscription and pricing options to help ensure you only pay for what you use on the software solutions you need. In this post, I will explain the cost-saving opportunities of pay-as-you-go pricing as well as free trials and annual subscriptions. These pricing models […]

In this post, I’ll offer a summary of the data challenges faced by Riteway Sales and Marketing, a member of BeaconUnited, and how the company used TIBCO Spotfire on AWS, an analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed for data exploration, to address those challenges. I’ll also include some of the results Riteway achieved by implementing the […]

In this post, you’ll discover how Ibotta, a mobile shopping app that helps consumers save money by generating cash back on in-store and mobile purchases, used Cloudability from AWS Marketplace to automate its reporting on cloud usage. This helped to increase its coverage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances by 20 percent […]

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that lists thousands of software solutions with flexible pricing options. SaaS contracts, hourly billing, annual licenses, and private offers are examples of different payment options to choose from. Typically, when customers are in the procurement process, they use multiple linked accounts to subscribe to these products with several […]

In this post, I’ll discuss how the United Kingdom’s largest newspaper publisher, Reach, reduced costs and increased performance for its disaster recovery solution by procuring and deploying NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP from AWS Marketplace. In this fast-paced era of digital journalism, the company must deliver print and digital editions like clockwork to keep up with […]

Update on 4/20/2020:  In addition to this blog, AWS Marketplace released Private Marketplace feature that lets administrators create a curated list of products authorized users can purchase from. For more information, see documentation and blogs.  Update on 1/20/2021:  In addition to this blog, you can use managed entitlements, a new feature of AWS License Manager […]

In this post, I will summarize the principles discussed in the recent AWS Marketplace webinar, “Making the Move from DevOps to DevSecOps.” If you are on your journey to the cloud with AWS, you are probably already using some DevOps approaches, so you can spin up new Virtual Machines (VMs), test, stage, and deploy applications […]