Receiving Amazon SNS notifications for AMI products on AWS Marketplace

To receive notifications about changes to customer subscriptions for your products, you can subscribe to the Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics for AWS Marketplace provided to you during product creation. For example, you can know when customers accept a private offer. Amazon SNS topic: aws-mp-subscription-notification is an Amazon SNS topic that is available for AMI products. This topic notifies you when a buyer subscribes or unsubscribes to a product. This notification is available for hourly pricing models, including hourly and hourly with annual. For more information, see the following sections.

Note

During the product creation process, an Amazon SNS topic is created for your product. To subscribe to notifications, you need the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon SNS topic (for example, arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:aws-mp-subscription-notification-PRODUCTCODE). The ARN is not available in the seller portal for server products. Contact the AWS Marketplace operations team to request the ARN.

Amazon SNS topic: aws-mp-subscription-notification

Each message in the aws-mp-subscription-notification topic for the subscribe-success and subscribe-fail action has the following format.

{
    "action": "<action-name>",
    "customer-identifier": " X01EXAMPLEX",
    "product-code": "n0123EXAMPLEXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "offer-identifier": "offer-abcexample123"
}

The <action-name> will vary depending on the notification. Possible actions are:

• subscribe-success

• subscribe-fail

• unsubscribe-pending

• unsubscribe-success

The offer-identifier only appears in the notification if the offer is a private offer.

Subscribing an Amazon SQS queue to the Amazon SNS topic

We recommend subscribing an Amazon SQS queue to the provided SNS topics. For detailed instructions on creating an SQS queue and subscribing the queue to a topic, see Subscribing an Amazon SQS queue to an Amazon SNS topic in the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.

Note

You can only subscribe to AWS Marketplace SNS topics from the AWS account used to sell the products. However, you can forward the messages to a different account. For more information, see Sending Amazon SNS messages to an Amazon SQS queue in a different account in the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.

Polling the SQS queue for notifications

After you subscribe your SQS queue to an SNS topic, the messages are stored in SQS. You must define a service that continually polls the queue, looks for messages, and handles them accordingly.