Why AWS Marketplace?
AWS Marketplace is a curated catalog that helps you find, buy, deploy, and manage the best-fit products from AWS Marketplace Sellers. Accelerate innovation with streamlined procurement and access to a broad selection of software, data, and services from thousands of sellers. Enhance governance and optimize costs with centralized management in AWS Marketplace.
Features
Discovery and evaluation
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Access free trials and free products
Get hands-on experience before purchasing, build proofs of concept, and experiment with different products from sellers by taking advantage of popular free trials and free products.
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Compare popular software products from sellers side-by-side
Use our generative AI comparisons feature to evaluate similar software from sellers across key evaluation criteria and access AI-summarized insights, helping you make faster and more informed software purchasing decisions.
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Streamline product assessments
Access product reviews and recommendations to help inform your decision, and request product demos and custom pricing directly from popular product listing pages to accelerate your evaluation.
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Discover AWS Marketplace products while building in AWS service consoles
AWS Marketplace is integrated with 17+ AWS service consoles, allowing you to find the products you need, when and where you need them.
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Discover AWS Marketplace products on seller websites
Buy with AWS helps you quickly find, try, and buy products from seller websites using your AWS account.
Procurement
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Transact quickly with standard contracts
Review the Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace (SCMP) once, and reduce the need to negotiate contracts for thousands of products from sellers that offer the SCMP.
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Negotiate custom terms and pricing
Private offers and Channel Partner Private Offers allow you to negotiate custom terms and pricing that are not publicly available in AWS Marketplace. To request custom pricing, you can click on “request private offer” on product listing pages, or contact sellers directly.
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Manage purchase orders
While purchasing, you can assign a unique purchase order (PO) for each AWS Marketplace transaction. Post-subscription, you can update purchase order numbers for any future charges in the AWS Marketplace console. If you add a PO for any pay-as-you-go charges, you'll receive a monthly invoice for each purchase order. View a charge summary for each subscription in the AWS Marketplace console, including associated PO numbers, allowing you to track and manage your transactions.
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Integrate procurement systems with AWS Marketplace
Procurement system integrations allow you to streamline approvals and manage AWS Marketplace spend in your Coupa and SAP Ariba procurement system.
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Consolidate billing with AWS
Centrally manage all of your AWS purchases from one dashboard. Access and process invoices for your organization's AWS purchases with ease.
Deployment
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Streamline Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment
SaaS Quick Launch offers step-by-step instructions and resource deployment using pre-configured CloudFormation templates, reducing the time and resources required to configure and launch SaaS products from sellers on AWS.
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Interoperability across AWS services
AWS Marketplace has integrations with over 10 AWS services, allowing you to subscribe to seller products through AWS Marketplace and launch them using AWS services.
Cost management
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Flexible pricing options
Ease into commitments with pricing options that give you the flexibility to try software, pay-as-you-go, negotiate custom pricing, and save money with long-term commitments.
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Finance AWS Marketplace purchases
Spread out up-front costs by financing your AWS Marketplace purchases. Select US customers can apply for, utilize, and manage financing in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console through the financing program for AWS Marketplace. Financing is also possible through select sellers and other lenders outside of AWS Marketplace.
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Track AWS Marketplace agreements and spend
Access the procurement insights dashboard in the AWS Marketplace console for detailed visibility into the agreements and spend across the AWS accounts in your organization. You can also build your own dashboard to get visibility across multiple organizations.
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Consolidate cost management with AWS
View the status of your overall AWS expenditure and understand at a high level how AWS Marketplace spend is trending with AWS Cost Explorer. Set custom budgets and alerting to track your AWS Marketplace cost and usage with AWS Budgets. Use cost allocation tags to identify and track AWS Marketplace resource usage through AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Reports, AWS Budgets, or other cloud cost analysis tools.
Governance and control
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Simplify product risk assessments
Vendor Insights allows you to access the security and compliance information of participating sellers in a unified dashboard, helping you evaluate and procure software that meets your industry standards.
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Control what seller products are purchased
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.
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Centralize management as you scale with AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations allows you to create accounts and allocate resources, group accounts to organize your workflows, apply policies for governance, and simplify billing by using a single payment method for all of your accounts.
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Manage software license entitlements
Managed Entitlements for AWS Marketplace allows you to distribute, activate, and track software license entitlements acquired in AWS Marketplace through AWS License Manager. Automate the distribution and activation of software entitlements to end-users and workloads across accounts in your AWS organization.