Annual pricing - AWS Marketplace

Annual pricing

An annual pricing model enables you to offer products to customers who can purchase a 12-month subscription. As an example, the subscription pricing can provide up to 40 percent savings compared to running the same product hourly for extended periods. The customer is invoiced for the full amount of the contract at the time of subscription. For more information about how annual subscriptions are presented to customers, see AMI subscriptions or Pricing models for paid container products.

Considerations when working with an annual subscription include the following:

  • Annual pricing is defined per instance type. It can be the same for all Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types or different for each instance type.

  • All Annual instance types must also have an Hourly instance type defined. AWS Marketplace doesn't offer Annual-only pricing or Hourly without Annual on the same product. For any product offering Annual pricing, Hourly pricing also needs to be specified.

  • A $0 Annual price is allowed on a specific instance type, if the Hourly price is also $0 and there are other non-$0 Annual instance types defined.

  • At the end of the annual subscription period, the customer will start being charged at the hourly price.

  • If a customer buys X Annual subscriptions but is running Y software on Y instances, then the customer is charged at Hourly software price for (Y-X) instances which are not covered by Annual subscriptions. As such, an Hourly rate must be included for all Annual pricing instance types.

  • Using seller private offers, you can offer a multi-year (up to 3 years) or custom duration AMI with upfront payment, or a flexible payment schedule. For more information about multi-year and custom duration contracts, see Preparing a private offer for your AWS Marketplace product and Private offer installment plans.

If you offer an Annual product in AWS Marketplace, you agree to the specific refund policies for Annual products, located in the File Uploader documents section in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal.