Sharing subscriptions in an organization - AWS Marketplace
Prerequisites for license sharingViewing your licensesSharing your licensesTracking license usage

Sharing subscriptions in an organization

When you subscribe to products in AWS Marketplace, an agreement is created that grants you a license to use those products. If your AWS account is a member of an organization, you can share that license for Amazon Machine Image (AMI), container, machine learning, and data products with the other accounts in that organization. You must set up license support in AWS Marketplace, and then share this from within AWS License Manager.

Note

For more information about AWS Organizations, see the AWS Organizations User Guide.

For more information about sharing licenses with your organization in AWS License Manager, see Granted licenses in the AWS License Manager User Guide.

The following video provides a walkthrough of the license sharing experience.

The following topics outline the process of viewing, sharing, and tracking licenses across accounts.

Prerequisites for license sharing

Before you can share licenses in AWS Marketplace you must set up license sharing for your organization. Complete the following tasks to set up license sharing for your organization:

Viewing your licenses

AWS Marketplace automatically creates licenses for AMI, container, machine learning, software as a service (SaaS), and data products that you purchase. You can share those licenses with other accounts in your organization.

Note

Although licenses are created for SaaS products, the sharing of SaaS licenses is not currently supported.

You manage and share licenses using AWS License Manager. However, you can use AWS Marketplace to view the licenses for products that you purchased from within AWS Marketplace.

To view licenses for your subscribed products in AWS Marketplace

  1. In AWS Marketplace, sign in and choose Manage Subscriptions.

  2. You can view all licenses or view the license for a specific subscription.

    • To view all licenses

      1. From the Actions menu, select View Licenses to view all AWS Marketplace managed licenses in the License Manager console.

    • To view licenses for a single subscription

      1. Choose the card of the product that you want to view to go to its product details page.

      2. From the Actions menu, select View License to view the license for that product in the License Manager console.

Note

You can also view granted licenses that have been aggregated from all accounts in your organization. For more information, see Granted licenses in the AWS License Manager User Guide.

Sharing your licenses

Only AMI, container, machine learning, and data products have licenses that can be shared.

Subscriptions in AWS Marketplace have an Access level shown in the product details:

  • Products with an Agreement level have a license that you can use and share with other accounts in your organization.

  • Products with an Entitlement level are licenses that have been shared with your account—you can use these products, but you can't share them.

AWS Marketplace supports grants, which share the use of a license directly with AWS Organizations, an AWS account, or an organizational unit using AWS License Manager. The grant activation process now includes additional options to replace grants that are activated for the same product sourced from AWS Marketplace. For more information, see Granted licenses in the AWS License Manager User Guide.

Note

For products that are restricted to specific AWS Regions, an account you share your license with can only activate the license if the account is within an allowed Region.

Tracking license usage

You can track your usage-based license metrics for AMI products with AWS License Manager by selecting the Usage dashboard tab in each respective license.

For more information about using License Manager to track your license usage, see Granted licenses in the AWS License Manager User Guide.