Document history for AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide
The following table describes the documentation for this release of the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide.
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| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Document structure update | Using page views and other data, we restructured this guide to make important topics easier to find. The navigation was updated to reduce overall depth. Related topics were consolidated, and redirects were added so that bookmarks should lead to the updated locations. | August 16, 2024 |
Updated Amazon Machine Image (AMI) annual agreement amendment options | Buyers can now amend their subscription to add or switch AMI instance types. | May 30, 2024 |
Removed the AWSMarketplaceImageBuildFullAccess policy | AWS Marketplace discontinued the Private Image Build delivery method, so the
| May 30, 2024 |
New demo and private offer options on AWS Marketplace | AWS Marketplace now supports demo and private offer request options on product detail pages for select products. | April 1, 2024 |
Updated managed policy | February 16, 2024 | |
AWS Marketplace now provides a service-linked role to describe and update Private Marketplace resources and describe AWS Organizations. | February 16, 2024 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports an integration with AWS Organizations and the ability to register delegated administrators to administrate private marketplace experiences. | February 16, 2024 | |
General availability for future dated agreements in AWS Marketplace | Future dated agreements functionality for all SaaS ISVs and Channel Partners is now generally available in AWS Marketplace. Using future dated agreements, customers can pre-book deals or set up renewals when they have existing purchases on the same product listing with decreased operational effort. | January 16, 2024 |
AWS Marketplace now supports the following AWS Region: Canada West (Calgary). | December 20, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace now provides a service-linked role to manage deployment-related parameters, which are stored as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager, on behalf of buyers. | November 29, 2023 | |
Buyers can now reduce the time, resources, and steps required to configure, deploy, and launch applicable software as a service (SaaS) products in AWS Marketplace. | November 29, 2023 | |
Flexible Payment Schedules (FPS) for private offers are now available to all customers in the AWS Marketplace. | November 17, 2023 | |
Customers can now subscribe to third-party add-ons from the Amazon EKS console without being redirected to AWS Marketplace. | October 18, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace is now integrated with Amazon EventBridge, formerly called Amazon CloudWatch Events. | September 6, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports the following AWS Region: Israel (Tel Aviv). | August 1, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order functionality for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) annual contracts. | June 29, 2023 | |
Buyers can now manage all their purchase orders in the AWS Billing console and easily reconcile their out-of-cycle SaaS contract PDF invoices with the corresponding purchase orders. | February 3, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports the following AWS Region: Asia Pacific (Melbourne). | January 24, 2023 | |
Updated managed policies | January 19, 2023 | |
Authenticated buyers can now view the AWS Marketplace private offers extended to their AWS account on the Private offers page. | January 19, 2023 | |
Buyers are now notified when a private offer is published. | December 22, 2022 | |
SaaS free trials for subscriptions are now available to buyers on AWS Marketplace | Buyers can now subscribe to free trials for subscription SaaS products. | December 16, 2022 |
If a seller has upgraded or renewed a previous SaaS private offer, buyers can accept a new private offer without having to cancel their existing agreement. | December 13, 2022 | |
AWS Marketplace supports archiving private marketplace experiences | Buyers can now archive and reactivate private marketplace experiences in AWS Marketplace. | December 12, 2022 |
Updated policy for AWS Marketplace tag-based authorization feature | Updated the | December 9, 2022 |
Added new topic providing information on how to cancel your subscription | Added information on how to cancel your subscription to AMI, ML, and SaaS products in AWS Marketplace. Also, added information on canceling your auto-renewal for a SaaS contract. | December 8, 2022 |
Updated policies for buyers in AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights | Updated managed policies | November 30, 2022 |
Controlling access for buyers in AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights | Added a new topic in AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights to describe actions and permissions available to buyers. | November 30, 2022 |
AWS Marketplace now supports the following AWS Region: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). | November 22, 2022 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports the following AWS Region: Europe (Spain). | November 16, 2022 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports the following AWS Region: Europe (Zurich). | November 9, 2022 | |
Buyers who currently use the IPv4 format address in their IAM policies are advised to update their IAM policies to IPv6 format addresses before December 15, 2022. | September 29, 2022 | |
Buyers now have more granular permissions to manage private marketplace experiences. | September 8, 2022 | |
Added two policies | July 26, 2022 | |
AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is a feature offering software risk assessment. | July 26, 2022 | |
Documentation-only update to clarify how to change payment methods in the AWS Billing console. | June 1, 2022 | |
Buyers can now subscribe to SaaS free trials for contracts to explore products before transitioning into paid trials. | May 31, 2022 | |
Vendor-metering tags added for AMI, Container, and SaaS products | New feature providing tags to help customers understand their AWS Marketplace resource usage across vendor-provided metrics. | May 27, 2022 |
New feature enabling email notifications to buyer verifying agreements made in AWS Marketplace. | May 23, 2022 | |
Auto approval of Free/BYOL products for eProcurement customers enabled | Customers can use products immediately with the new automatic approval of free/BYOL products for eProcurement customers. | May 2, 2022 |
Contract modifications enabled for buyers in AMI and Container Product contracts | AMI and Container product contracts can be modified to purchase additional entitlements or and enable the automatic subscription renewal option. | April 6, 2022 |
Buyers can now track usage based license metrics for AMI and SaaS products with AWS License Manager. | March 28, 2022 | |
Updated container products documentation regarding the Helm CLI version change from 3.7.0 to 3.7.1. This is the only compatible version at this time. | March 8, 2022 | |
Permissions that were no longer needed were removed from the following
policies: | March 4, 2022 | |
Ability for EMEA-based buyers to purchase products through Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL | AWS Marketplace buyers whose AWS accounts are based in countries and territories in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), excluding Turkey and South Africa, can now receive AWS Marketplace invoices through Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL for purchases from EMEA-eligible sellers. | January 7, 2022 |
AWS Marketplace now supports the following AWS Region: Asia Pacific (Jakarta). | December 13, 2021 | |
Buyers can now launch container-based products by installing a Helm chart in their launch environments. | November 29, 2021 | |
General updates and reorganization of container-based product documentation | Updated container-based product documentation to add more information and clarity around finding, subscribing to, and launching container-based products. | November 29, 2021 |
Buyers can now use QuickLaunch when launching container-based products with a Helm chart delivery method. QuickLaunch is a feature in AWS Marketplace that leverages AWS CloudFormation to quickly create a new Amazon EKS cluster and launch a container-based application on it. | November 29, 2021 | |
Contract pricing for AMI-based products and container-based products | Buyers are now able to purchase an AMI-based product or a Container-based product with upfront pricing. | November 17, 2021 |
AWS Marketplace supports adding purchase order numbers to purchases of software as a service (SaaS) contracts. | October 28, 2021 | |
AWS Marketplace supports integration with the SAP Ariba procurement system. | October 13, 2021 | |
AWS Marketplace supports using aliases for AMI IDs that can be used across regions. | September 8, 2021 | |
Unused permissions from | August 27, 2021 | |
You can share licenses to products that you purchase with other accounts in your AWS organization. | December 3, 2020 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports purchasing professional services. | December 3, 2020 | |
You can pay for AWS Marketplace purchases using your preferred currency. | July 27, 2020 | |
You can review and accept private offer upgrades and renewals | Sellers can provide upgrade and renewal private offers for SaaS contract and SaaS contract with consumption products that you can review and accept while on an existing agreement. | May 28, 2020 |
AWS Marketplace supports data products through AWS Data Exchange | You can now subscribe to AWS Data Exchange data products in AWS Marketplace. | November 13, 2019 |
AWS Marketplace now supports paid hourly containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). | September 25, 2019 | |
Updated content to provide more information on accepting different types of private offers. | March 29, 2019 | |
Updated IAM policies information, restructured section for readability. | March 25, 2019 | |
Added content supporting the release of Private Marketplace. | November 27, 2018 | |
Initial release of the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide. | November 16, 2018 |
