What is AWS Marketplace? - AWS Marketplace

What is AWS Marketplace?

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that you can use to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services that you need to build solutions and run your businesses. AWS Marketplace includes thousands of software listings from popular categories such as security, networking, storage, machine learning, IoT, business intelligence, database, and DevOps. AWS Marketplace also simplifies software licensing and procurement with flexible pricing options and multiple deployment methods. In addition, AWS Marketplace includes data products available from AWS Data Exchange.

You can quickly launch pre-configured software with just a few clicks, and choose software solutions in Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and software as a service (SaaS) formats, as well as other formats. Additionally, you can browse and subscribe to data products. Flexible pricing options include free trial, hourly, monthly, annual, multi-year, and a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model. All of these pricing options are billed from one source. AWS handles billing and payments, and charges appear on your AWS bill.

You can use AWS Marketplace as a buyer (subscriber) or as a seller (provider), or both. Anyone with an AWS account can use AWS Marketplace as a consumer and can register to become a seller. A seller can be an independent software vendor (ISV), value-added reseller, or individual that has something to offer that works with AWS products and services.

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Data product providers need to meet the AWS Data Exchange eligibility requirements. For more information, see Providing Data Products on AWS Data Exchange in the AWS Data Exchange User Guide.

Every software product in AWS Marketplace has been through a curation process. On the product page, there can be one or more offerings for the product. When the seller submits a product in AWS Marketplace, they define the price of the product, and the terms and conditions of use. Buyers agree to the pricing, and terms and conditions set for the offer.

In AWS Marketplace, the product can be free to use or can have an associated charge. The charge becomes part of your AWS bill, and after you pay, AWS Marketplace pays the seller.

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When buying from some non-US sellers, you may also receive a tax invoice from the seller. For more information, see AWS Marketplace Sellers on Amazon Web Service Tax Help.

Products can take many forms. For instance, a product can be offered as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is instantiated using your AWS account. The product could also be configured to use AWS CloudFormation templates for delivery to the consumer. The product could also be software as a service (SaaS) offerings from an ISV, or a web ACL, set of rules, or conditions for AWS WAF.

You can purchase software products at the listed price using the ISV’s standard end user license agreement (EULA) or from a private offer with custom pricing and EULA. You can also purchase products under a standard contract with specified time or usage boundaries.

After the product subscriptions are in place, you can use AWS Service Catalog to copy the product and manage how the product is accessed and used in your organization. For more information, see Adding AWS Marketplace Products to Your Portfolio in the AWS Service Catalog Administrator Guide.

Contract structure in AWS Marketplace

Usage of the software, services, and data products sold on AWS Marketplace is governed by agreements between buyers and sellers. AWS is not a party to these agreements.

As the buyer, your use of AWS Marketplace is governed by the AWS Service Terms, the AWS Customer Agreement, and the Privacy Notice.

Seller agreements include the following:

  • The seller's EULA is located on the product listing page for public software listings on AWS Marketplace. Many sellers use the Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace (SCMP) as their default EULA. They can also use the SCMP as the basis for negotiations in private offers and use the amendment template to modify the SCMP. Private offers can also include custom contract terms negotiated between the parties.

  • AWS Marketplace Seller Terms govern the seller's activity in AWS Marketplace.

The following graphic shows the contract structure for AWS Marketplace.


        Contractual structure for buyers, sellers, and AWS.

EULA updates

Sellers have the option of updating the EULA for each of their software as a service (SaaS) products. When this update affects your EULA depends on the offer type and pricing model.

The following table provides information on when the new EULA will take effect for SaaS products.

Offer type Pricing model When updated EULA takes effect
Public Usage You cancel your subscription and resubscribe.
Public Contract Your current contract ends and renews into a new public offer contract.
Public Contract with consumption Your current contract ends and renews into a new public offer contract.
Private Usage Your current private offer expires and auto-renews into a new public offer contract. Renewals to the private offer are dependent on the specific private offer.
Private Contract Your current private offer expires and you resubscribe to the public offer or to a new private offer. Renewals to the private offer are dependent on the specific private offer.
Private Contract with consumption Your current private offer expires and you resubscribe to the public offer or to a new private offer. Renewals to the private offer are dependent on the specific private offer.

Standard contracts for AWS Marketplace

As you prepare to purchase a product, review the associated EULA or standardized contract. Many sellers offer the same standardized contract on their listings, the Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace (SCMP). AWS Marketplace developed the SCMP in collaboration with buyer and seller communities to govern usage and define the obligations of buyers and sellers for digital solutions. Examples of digital solutions include server software, software as a service (SaaS), and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms.

Instead of reviewing custom EULAs for each purchase, you only need to review the SCMP once. The contract terms are the same for all products that use the SCMP.

Sellers may also use the following addendums with the SCMP:

To find product listings that offer standardized contracts, use the Standard Contract filter when searching for products. For private offers, ask the seller if they can replace their EULA with the SCMP and apply agreed upon amendments as necessary to support transaction-specific requirements.

For more information, see Standardized Contracts in AWS Marketplace.

Using AWS Marketplace as a buyer

As a buyer, you go to AWS Marketplace to search, filter, and navigate to a product that runs on Amazon Web Services.

When you choose a software product, you are taken to the product’s page. The page has information about the product, pricing, usage, support, and product reviews. To subscribe to the software product, you sign in to your AWS account and are taken to a subscription page that has the EULA, terms and conditions of usage, and any options available for customizing your subscription.

AWS Marketplace purchases made by your accounts based in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (excluding Turkey and South Africa) from EMEA-eligible sellers are facilitated by Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL.

For customers in certain countries, Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL charges local value-added tax (VAT) on your AWS Marketplace purchases. For more information about taxes, see the AWS Marketplace Buyers Tax help page.

For more information about Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, see the Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL FAQs.

Customers who transact with EMEA-eligible sellers receive an invoice from Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL. All other transactions continue to go through AWS Inc. For more information, see Paying for products.

After the subscription is processed, you can configure fulfillment options, software versions, and AWS Regions where you want to use the product, and then launch the software product. You can also find or launch your products by visiting Your Marketplace Software on the AWS Marketplace website, from your AWS Marketplace or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console, or through the Service Catalog.

For more information about product categories available using AWS Marketplace, see Product categories.

For more information about delivery methods for software products in AWS Marketplace, see: