Contract pricing for AMI products on AWS Marketplace
Contract pricing for Amazon Machine Image (AMI)-based products means that the buyer pays an upfront fee for a single AMI product or single AMI with AWS CloudFormation stack. For AMI-based products with contract pricing, AWS Marketplace bills your customers upfront or by the payment schedule that you define, based on the contract between you and your customer. After that point, they're entitled to use those resources. This topic provides more information about contract pricing.
To set your pricing, choose one or more contract durations that you offer customers. You can enter different prices for each contract duration. Your options are 1-month, 12-months, 24-month, and 36-month durations. For private offers, you can specify a custom duration in months (up to 60 months).
Choose the category that best describes your product’s pricing. The pricing category appears to customers on the AWS Marketplace website. You can choose from Bandwidth (GB/s, MB/s), Data (GB, MB, TB), Hosts, Requests, Tiers, or Users. If none of the predefined categories fit your needs, you can choose the more generic Units category.
The offer allows for up to 24 dimensions to be added to it. Each dimension requires the following data:
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Contracts Category – For contract products with no consumption-based pricing, you can choose a category which most closely resembles the category of dimension in the contract or choose Units if no values resemble the units for the dimension in the contract
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Contracts Unit – Choose one of the available values for the units that closely matches your dimensions based on the Category selected.
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Contracts Dimension Allow Multiple Purchases – This field is used to indicate whether an offer is a tiered pricing offer or a non-tiered offer:
Tiered offer – Allows the buyer to subscribe to only one of the available dimensions in the offer. Dimensions in a tiered offer don't have the concept of quantities. Signing a contract with a specific dimension essentially indicates that the buyer has chosen the specific feature indicated by that dimension.
Non-tiered offer – Allows the customer to procure more than one dimensions as part of the contract and allows them to procure multiple units of each such dimension.
Setting a value of true for this field indicates that the offer is a non-tiered offer. Setting a value of false for this field indicates that the offer is a tiered offer.
When using the Product Load Form (PLF) to create the contracts for your AMI product, you must define the following fields for your pricing dimensions:
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Contracts DimensionX API Name – The name that should appear in the license generated in the buyer’s AWS License Manager account. This name is also used as the value for
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Contracts DimensionX Display Name – The customer-facing name of the dimension that will be displayed on the product detail and procurement pages of the AWS Marketplace website. Create a name that is be user-friendly. The name's maximum length is 24 characters. After the listing is public, the value of
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Contracts DimensionX Description – The customer-facing description of a dimension that provides additional information about the dimension for the product, such as the capabilities that the specific dimension provides. The maximum length for the description is 70 characters.
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Contracts DimensionX Quantity – This is used to calculate proration in cases of agreement amendments to a product. This value of this field should be set to 1 for all contract offers. It should not be edited.
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Contracts DimensionX 1-Month Rate – The contract rate to be charged for one month of entitlements against this dimension. For non-tiered offers, this rate is charged for each unit of the dimension that is procured. This field supports three decimal places.
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Contracts DimensionX 12-Month Rate – The contract rate to be charged for 12 months of entitlements against the dimension. For non-tiered offers, this rate is charged for each unit of the dimension that is procured. This field supports three decimal places.
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Contracts DimensionX 24-Month Rate – The contract rate to be charged for 24 months of entitlements against the dimension. For non-tiered offers, this rate is charged for each unit of the dimension that is procured. This field supports three decimal places.
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Contracts DimensionX 36-Month Rate – The contract rate to be charged for 36 months of entitlements against the dimension. For non-tiered offers, this rate is charged for each unit of the dimension that is procured. This field supports three decimal places.
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Note
The prices can be for the following durations: 1 month, 12 months, 24 months, or 36 months. You can choose to offer one or more of these options for your product. The durations must be the same across each dimension.
For example, in a case where you have ReadOnlyUsers and
AdminUsers dimensions, if you offer a yearly price for ReadOnlyUsers, you
must offer a yearly price for AdminUsers, too.
Automatic renewals
When customers purchase your product through AWS Marketplace using AMI contracts, they can agree to automatically renew the contract terms. Customers continue to pay for the entitlements every month or for 1, 2, or 3 years.
Customers can modify their renewal settings at any time. For more information, see Modifying an existing contract in the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide.
