Document history
The following table describes the documentation for this release of the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.
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| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Updated the | June 4, 2024 | |
Updated Amazon Machine Image (AMI) annual agreement amendment options | Sellers can now add or switch instance types for existing subscriptions. | May 30, 2024 |
Added additional step to the KYC process for sellers. | May 21, 2024 | |
Updated private offer experience for AWS Marketplace sellers | Added content for an enhanced experience for creating and managing private offers. | May 20, 2024 |
Updated "Preparing your container product as an AWS Marketplace add-on" section and added "Add-on configuration requirements and best practices for add-on providers". | May 8, 2024 | |
Updated permissions examples to fix syntax errors. | April 2, 2024 | |
Updated content related to reporting overages for SaaS contract with pay-as-go pricing models. | April 2, 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 sellers. | April 1, 2024 |
AWS Marketplace now supports a taxation dashboard that provides visualization and fine-grained data on US and international tax for transactions in AWS Marketplace. | March 29, 2024 | |
Added | March 22, 2024 | |
Updated the editing product visibility and removing a professional services product procedures. | March 19, 2024 | |
Updated the section to clarify Linux-specific and Unix-like AMI access policies. | March 19, 2024 | |
Added search engine optimization information for AWS Marketplace | Added content related to search engine optimization for AWS Marketplace. | March 19, 2024 |
Updated | March 15, 2024 | |
AWS Marketplace now provides a service-linked role that enables access to AWS services and resources used or managed by AWS Marketplace for Resale Authorizations. | March 15, 2024 | |
Updated | February 8, 2024 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports Amazon EventBridge events, formerly called Amazon CloudWatch Events, when a security vulnerability report is available for a seller's products. | January 31, 2024 | |
Added content and procedures related to publishing to Amazon EKS add-ons from AWS Marketplace container-based product. | January 29, 2024 | |
Added support for professional service sellers to resell products | Sellers can now create resell opportunities for channel partners as independent software vendors (ISVs). | January 18, 2024 |
General availability for future dated agreements in AWS Marketplace | All ISVs and AWS Marketplace Channel Partners can specify a future start date as part of publishing a private offer with upfront pricing. | January 16, 2024 |
AWS Marketplace now supports a usage dashboard that provides a visualization and fine-grained data for customers using SaaS and server usage-based products. | January 10, 2024 | |
Added content and procedures related to the new Quick Launch deployment option for software as a service (SaaS) products. | November 29, 2023 | |
Flexible Payment Schedules (FPS) for private offers are now available to all customers in the AWS Marketplace. | November 17, 2023 | |
Added content and procedures related to self-service actions for container products. | November 3, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace now provides an agreements and renewals dashboard for sellers. | October 31, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports Amazon EventBridge events, formerly called Amazon CloudWatch Events, when a change set completes with a status of succeeded, failed, or cancelled. | October 31, 2023 | |
Updated managed policy for sellers in AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights | AWS Marketplace updated | October 18, 2023 |
Ending support for AWS Marketplace for Desktop Applications (AMDA) | AWS Marketplace ended support for AMDA on October 2, 2023. All content and procedures related to AMDA were removed from the guide. | October 2, 2023 |
Added content and procedures related to self-service actions for software as a service (SaaS) products. | September 12, 2023 | |
Daily disbursements are now available for AWS Marketplace sellers | Sellers in AWS Marketplace Management Portal now have the option to receive disbursements daily or monthly. | September 7, 2023 |
AWS Marketplace now supports EventBridge events when sellers receive new offers. | September 6, 2023 | |
New self-service onboarding experience for AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights | AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights now supports a self-service onboarding experience. | August 17, 2023 |
Updated | June 1, 2023 | |
Updated | June 1, 2023 | |
Added overview information, permissions, and procedures for fine-grained access in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. | June 1, 2023 | |
Added self-service procedures for AMI products. | May 12, 2023 | |
Ending support for Amazon Tax Exemption Program and US Tax Calculation Service on AWS Marketplace | Amazon Tax Exemption Program and US Tax Calculation Service were removed from the guide because support for this service ended effective March 6, 2023. | March 6, 2023 |
Added new procedures for making changes to container product settings. | February 13, 2023 | |
Ending support for AWS Marketplace Product Support Connection | AWS Marketplace Product Support Connection and sharing customer contact details using the Commerce Analytics Service are no longer supported as of November 30, 2022. AWS Marketplace removed AWS Marketplace Product Support Connection content from the guide. | January 27, 2023 |
Consulting partner name change | AWS Marketplace now refers to consulting partners as channel partners. The guide was updated to reflect the name change only. | January 26, 2023 |
Customer service team name change | The Managed Catalog Operations (MCO) team changed their name to AWS Marketplace Seller Operations team. The guide was updated to reflect the name change only. | January 24, 2023 |
Authenticated buyers can now view the AWS Marketplace private offers extended to their AWS account on the Private offers page. | January 19, 2023 | |
Added a new topic with procedures for making changes to SaaS product settings. | January 6, 2023 | |
AWS Marketplace updated | December 23, 2022 | |
Sellers are now notified when a private offer is published. | December 22, 2022 | |
SaaS free trials for subscriptions are now available to sellers on AWS Marketplace | Sellers can now create free trials for subscription products. | December 16, 2022 |
Update seller experience for AMI self-service listing (version 2) on AWS Marketplace | Sellers on AWS Marketplace can now create a single-AMI product self-service listing. Sellers can make updates on their own without additional wait times for processing. | December 14, 2022 |
Updated three policies ( | December 9, 2022 | |
Updated policies for sellers in AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights | Updated managed policies | November 30, 2022 |
Controlling access for sellers in AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights | Added a new topic for AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights to describe actions and permissions available to sellers. | November 30, 2022 |
Updated four managed policies for AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights | Updated | November 28, 2022 |
The integration of AWS Marketplace and Amazon EKS enables sellers to present their products in the Amazon EKS console for buyers. | November 28, 2022 | |
Updated the setup procedure for AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights. | November 18, 2022 | |
Updated two policies | July 26, 2022 | |
Added two policies for AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights a feature offering software risk assessment. | Added two policies | July 26, 2022 |
AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is a new feature added to AWS Marketplace | AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is a feature offering software risk assessment. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights Vendor Insights is a feature offering software risk assessment. | July 26, 2022 |
AWS Marketplace Commerce Analytics Service permissions update | The AWS Marketplace Commerce Analytics Service has additional IAM permissions. | July 21, 2022 |
Documentation-only update to add the Seller Delivery Data Feeds Service section and reorganize the sections related to data feeds. | June 15, 2022 | |
Added a new section for supplementary reports that AWS Marketplace provides for recent feature launches. | June 14, 2022 | |
SaaS free trials for contracts are now available to sellers on AWS Marketplace | Sellers can now create free trials without additional development work by defining the free trial length, dimension(s) available in the trial period, and the amount of free usage capacity customers receive. | May 31, 2022 |
New feature enabling email notifications to buyers and sellers verifying offers and agreements made in AWS Marketplace. | May 23, 2022 | |
Examples added to creating your machine learning product listing | Documentation-only update to the machine learning section to include examples to show a comparison of the seller's view and the buyer's view when creating a machine learning product. | April 22, 2022 |
Documentation-only updates have been made to the machine learning section to clarify procedures. | April 15, 2022 | |
Residents in Israel are now eligible to become sellers on AWS Marketplace. | April 13, 2022 | |
Manufacturers will now receive offer information for offers created by their channel partner. This includes offers where the concerning account is the seller of record and the manufacturer for the offer as well. | March 29, 2022 | |
Sellers now have the ability to receive notifications for reseller opportunities. | March 28, 2022 | |
Updated the professional services products page with a video containing details on how to manage service products. | February 24, 2022 | |
New topic about deploying a serverless SaaS integration solution | New information added for integrating serverless SaaS deployment, including a
link to AWS Quick Start | February 15, 2022 |
Minimal updates to Container-based requirements and AMI sections | Minimal updates to policies in Container-based requirements and removed incorrect information for AMI pricing contracts | February 14, 2022 |
Documentation-only update to clarify how to push container images and other artifacts to repositories. | February 10, 2022 | |
The | February 3, 2022 | |
Documentation-only update to add detailed guidance on adding contract-pricing to your AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere products by integrating with License Manager. | February 1, 2022 | |
Documentation-only update to clarify SaaS notification messages. | January 25, 2022 | |
Ability for sellers to transact with EMEA-based buyers through Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL | Eligible AWS Marketplace sellers can now transact with customers whose AWS accounts are based in countries and territories in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) through Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL. | January 7, 2022 |
Sellers can now provide delivery options with a Helm chart delivery method. Buyers can use these delivery options to launch a container-based application by installing a seller-provided Helm chart in their launch environment. When providing a Helm chart delivery method, sellers can enable QuickLaunch for buyers. QuickLaunch is a feature that buyers can use to use AWS CloudFormation to quickly create a new Amazon EKS cluster and launch a container-based application on it. | November 29, 2021 | |
Security policies for AWS Marketplace sellers have been updated. | November 22, 2021 | |
Independent software vendors (ISVs) can now list a new AMI-based product or a Container-based product and offer upfront contract pricing for buyers. | November 17, 2021 | |
Documentation-only update for vendor metered tagging, including code examples. | November 11, 2021 | |
Amazon Simple Notification Service for AMI or Container products | Independent software vendors (ISVs) can receive notifications when customers subscribe to or unsubscribe from AMI or Container products through the Amazon Simple Notification Service. | November 10, 2021 |
AWS Marketplace added new permissions to access the Offers and Partners tabs in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. | November 9, 2021 | |
Ability to deploy endpoints configured for Asynchronous Inference for machine learning products | For machine learning software that expects a higher payload inference than the maximum, or requires processing times that exceed the maximum processing time per invocation, buyers have the ability to deploy endpoints configured for Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference. | November 8, 2021 |
Documentation-only update to clarify the refund policy and move all refund information to one central location in the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide. | August 20, 2021 | |
Independent software vendors can now select or upload an End User License Agreement (EULA) when creating resale opportunities for consulting partners. | August 17, 2021 | |
Independent software vendors (ISVs) can now customize SaaS contract product dimensions when creating resale opportunities for consulting partners. | August 17, 2021 | |
Documentation-only update to clarify the requirements for AWS Data Exchange dataset products for the AWS Marketplace Field Demonstration Program. | August 3, 2021 | |
Product guidelines for SaaS products have been updated. | July 29, 2021 | |
Container-based product requirements have been updated. | July 29, 2021 | |
Security policies for AMI products have been updated. | July 29, 2021 | |
The following are now eligible to become sellers on AWS Marketplace: Hong Kong SAR and Qatar. | June 23, 2021 | |
Documentation-only update to give an overview of the structure of the data feeds available to sellers. | June 23, 2021 | |
Documentation-only update to the information about creating and maintaining machine learning products. | May 27, 2021 | |
Sellers now have a simpler and faster way to update their container-based products through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. | December 17, 2020 | |
Sellers can now offer professional services to AWS Marketplace buyers. Added the professional services section to the documentation. | December 3, 2020 | |
Sellers now have a simpler and faster way to update their Amazon Machine Image (AMI) based products through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. | November 23, 2020 | |
The following are now eligible to become sellers on AWS Marketplace: Bahrain, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). | June 17, 2020 | |
You can offer upgrades and renewals on accepted private offers | For SaaS contract and SaaS contracts with consumption products, you can offer upgrades and renewals using private offers on previously-accepted private offers. | May 28, 2020 |
More information from reports is broken down into smaller data feeds to simplify finding and analyzing data. | May 21, 2020 | |
You can offer standardized license terms in place of custom EULAs to simplify the contracting process. | April 28, 2020 | |
The following are now eligible to become sellers on AWS Marketplace: (i) Permanent residents and citizens of Australia (AU) New Zealand (NZ) or (ii) business entities organized or incorporated in one of those areas. | April 2, 2020 | |
Container products now support custom metering and pricing enhancements | If you want to define your own pricing units and meter that usage to us for
billing, integrate with the AWS Marketplace Metering Service's | November 14, 2019 |
AWS Marketplace supports data products through AWS Data Exchange | You can now provide data products in AWS Marketplace. | November 13, 2019 |
The AWS Marketplace Catalog API service provides an API interface for approved sellers to programmatically manage their products. | November 12, 2019 | |
AWS Marketplace now supports paid hourly containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). | September 25, 2019 | |
You can now deploy AMIs and Lambda functions together using AWS CloudFormation. | September 11, 2019 | |
Consolidated security content under a new Security section. | May 7, 2019 | |
Updated the security policies for AMI products | April 11, 2019 | |
Added versioning information to Machine Learning Products section | Added content describing product version capability for machine learning products. | March 21, 2019 |
Added content for publishing machine learning products | November 28, 2018 | |
Added content for publishing container-based products. | November 27, 2018 | |
Changed email address to webform address. | October 22, 2018 | |
Restructured SaaS content and added content to support release of SaaS contracts with consumption features. | October 18, 2018 | |
Added content about flexible payment schedule for private offers | Added content to support release of flexible payment scheduler for private offers content. | October 15, 2018 |
Added content to support of new IAM permission for AMMP read only access. | October 9, 2018 | |
Added content to support Consulting Partner Private Offers feature release. | October 9, 2018 | |
Added content to support release of Private Image Build for AMIs feature. | August 13, 2018 | |
Added guidance for sellers who want to optimize their product for search. | July 3, 2018 | |
Updated link to point to new AWS Marketplace logos. | June 12, 2018 | |
Converted all PDF seller guides to online content. | May 9, 2018 |
