Category: Best Practices

In this post, Deepa and I will share a solution to set up private marketplace catalogs using AWS CloudFormation templates. You can use this solution to enable automation through integration with your organization’s existing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) setup. Internally, this solution uses APIs through AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) and leverages AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon S3. It provides an automated way to enable the private marketplace feature in your organization, create and configure multiple private marketplace experiences, and manage these experiences.

This blog provides a holistic roadmap of the process for SaaS companies to get their products listed in AWS Marketplace. Including all aspects, from initial seller registration to product creation, integration, testing, publishing, and promotion, with a breakdown of the roles, functions, and tips for each phase. By following the 5 phases and helpful tips listed in this blog, SaaS companies can efficiently list their solution in a few weeks.

In this blog post, Gowri Shankar, Pawan Janakiram, and ScaleCapacity Inc. demonstrate how to successfully migrate the workloads of their customers’ JD Edwards applications from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud using AWS Application Migration Service.

This post will provide an overview of how you can take advantage of APIs to manage pricing aspects of your products, offers, resale authorizations, and CPPOs.  You will learn about pricing terms and how to update them programmatically using the AWS Marketplace Catalog API.

In this post, we discuss a new feature, a ChangeType called UpdatePricingTerms that allows you to update your single Amazon Machine Image (AMI) product’s prices. We will also discuss the benefits of using this feature of Catalog API to update prices. Further, we highlighted the different options for scaling your pricing updates.

In this post, Ramya and I introduce you to the new SPG dashboard as a single pane of glass for your Marketplace transactions. You can view this dashboard without having AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions or technical proficiency on the underlying AWS services. We show how you can use the SPG dashboard for a simplified view of your AWS Marketplace subscriptions for spend management and usage tracking.

In this post, we demonstrated how to build a real-time product recommendation engine by leveraging the fully managed streaming capabilities of Amazon MSK, along with the real-time analytics and SQL capabilities of Rockset.

In this blog post, we show you how you can efficiently scale the remediation process using Tamnoon.io, to prioritize alerts and findings, conduct impact analysis of findings, and fix misconfigurations with minimal production impact.

In this post, I aim to help you create a SaaS contract product in AWS Marketplace. I take the current SaaS pricing tiered model and match it with the specific AWS Marketplace SaaS contract pricing model. I also explain the AWS Marketplace features that are relevant based on sales motions as well as best practices for structuring your product detail page.

In this blog post, we explore the challenge facing software buyers and sellers when gathering security and compliance information and how AWS Marketplace helps to address that challenge with its Vendor Insights feature. We also explain how software vendor Spacelift has benefited from creating a Vendor Insights profile for its SaaS product listed in AWS Marketplace.