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IDC MarketScape | Worldwide Cloud and Applications-Centric Marketplaces 2023 Vendor Assessment

Amazon named a Leader in IDC MarketScape Worldwide Cloud and Applications-Centric Marketplaces Vendor Assessment

IDC named Amazon a Leader, noting that “AWS Marketplace provides a seamless procurement and deployment experience for buyers and sellers.” Amazon also leads in strategy, with IDC noting that, “Continuous innovation has been a hallmark of AWS Marketplace's rapid cadence of new features and capabilities that address evolving customer needs.”

Cloud marketplaces empower buyers with unprecedented choice, efficiency, and an expansive range of products and services in one place. Marketplaces have evolved from basic catalogs and commerce-enabled websites to feature-rich platforms for procurement transformation.

The IDC MarketScape report analyzed six applications-centric marketplace vendors, detailing strengths and challenges for each. This excerpt of the report includes advice for technology buyers who are considering leveraging marketplaces, and the vendor summary for Amazon and AWS Marketplace.

Read the excerpt to:

  • See the IDC MarketScape’s recommendations for buyers looking to leverage marketplaces.
  • Learn about the IDC MarketScape methodology, and discover why Amazon is positioned as a Leader.
  • Better understand how AWS Marketplace can help you more quickly find and buy software, data, and services from AWS Partners.

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud and Applications-Centric Marketplaces 2023 Vendor Assessment, IDC #US51037123e, December 2023. IDC and IDC Research are registered trademarks of IDC, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. IDC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. IDC research publications consist of the opinions of IDC's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. IDC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.