# AWS Marketplace

> An online store where you buy other companies' software and pay through your AWS bill.

- Level: Basic
- Topics: AWS
- URL: https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-marketplace/
- In Spanish: [AWS Marketplace](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/es/aws-marketplace/)

**AWS Marketplace** is a catalog run by AWS where thousands of other companies sell software, data and services to AWS customers. You can find a security scanner, a database, a monitoring tool, a ready-made server image or a dataset, subscribe with a few clicks, and the charge shows up on the same AWS bill you already pay.

Products come in different shapes. Some are **SaaS** apps that run in the seller's own account and you just log into. Others are server images or containers that run inside your account, on your EC2 instances or Kubernetes clusters. There are also datasets, machine learning models and professional services like consulting. Pricing can be per hour, per user, per month or a yearly contract.

For companies the main appeal is paperwork. Buying software normally means a new vendor, a new contract, a new invoice and a security review. Through the Marketplace, the purchase goes through a relationship that already exists with AWS, often with standard contract terms. Sellers can also make **private offers**: a custom price for one customer, still billed through AWS. For software makers, it is a way to reach AWS customers without building a billing system of their own.

## An analogy

Like an app store for businesses: many different makers on the shelves, but one checkout and one receipt.

## Keep in mind

- Software, data and services from other companies, sold through AWS.
- Purchases are charged on your regular AWS bill.
- Includes SaaS apps, server images, containers, datasets and AI models.
- Private offers let a seller set a custom price for one customer.

## Go deeper

- [What is AWS Marketplace? (official docs)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/buyerguide/what-is-marketplace.html)
- [AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace)

## Related terms

- [Database](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/database/): An organized store of data that programs can search and update safely.
- [Server](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/server/): A computer whose job is to answer requests from other computers, all day, every day.
- [AWS account and billing](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-account-and-billing/): What an AWS account is, how you get charged, and how to avoid a surprise bill.
- [SaaS, PaaS and IaaS](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/saas-paas-iaas/): Three ways to rent computing, depending on how much of the work you hand over.
- [Container](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/container/): A sealed box with a program and everything it needs to run anywhere.
- [Amazon EC2](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-ec2/): Virtual computers you rent by the hour, in any size, and switch off when done.
- [Kubernetes](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/kubernetes/): The system that runs and babysits containers across many machines.
- [Machine learning](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/machine-learning/): Teaching computers by showing them examples instead of writing every rule.