Step 1: Creating an AWS account
You can browse the AWS Marketplace website (https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace) without being signed in to your AWS account. However, you must sign in to subscribe to or launch products.
You must be signed in to your AWS account to access the AWS Marketplace console.
To create an AWS account
1. Open https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup.
2. From the Sign In or Create an Account page, choose Create a New Account.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions. As part of the sign-in procedure, you will receive a phone call and you must enter a PIN using your phone keypad.
NoteWhen you create an account, AWS automatically signs up the account for all AWS services.
You are charged only for the services you use.
Step 2: Choosing your software
To choose your software
1. Navigate to the AWS Marketplace website.
Note
You can shop, subscribe, and launch new instances from either the public AWS Marketplace website, at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace, or through AWS Marketplace in the AWS Management Console, at https://console.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/home#/
subscriptions.
Step 3: Configuring your software
The experiences across the two locations are similar. This procedure uses the AWS Marketplace website but notes any major differences when using the console.
2. The Shop All Categories pane contains the list of categories you can choose from. You can also choose software featured in the middle pane. For this tutorial, in the Shop All Categories pane, choose Content Management.
3. From the Content Management list, choose WordPress Certified by Bitnami and Automattic.
4. On the product details page, review the product information. The product details page includes additional information such as:
• Buyer rating
• Support offering
• Highlights
• Detailed product description
• Pricing details for instance types in each AWS Region (for AMIs)
• Additional resources to help you get started 5. Choose Continue to Subscribe.
6. If you aren't already signed in, you are directed to sign in to AWS Marketplace. If you already have an AWS account, you can use that account to sign in. If you don't already have an AWS account, see Step 1: Creating an AWS account (p. 6).
7. Read the Bitnami offer terms, then choose Accept Terms to agree to the subscription offer.
8. It may take a moment for the subscription action to complete. When it does, you receive an email message about the subscription terms, and then you're able to continue. Choose Continue to Configuration to configure and launch your software.
Subscribing to a product means that you have accepted the terms of the product. If the product has a monthly fee, then upon subscription you are charged the fee, which is prorated based on the time remaining in the month. No other charges will be assessed until you launch an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance with the AMI you chose.
NoteAs a subscriber to a product, your account will receive email messages when a new version of the software you're subscribed to is published.
Step 3: Configuring your software
Because we chose software as an AMI, your next step is to configure the software, including selecting the delivery method, version, and AWS Region in which you want to use the software.
To configure your software
1. On the Configure this software page, select 64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the Delivery Method.
2. Choose the latest version available for Software Version.
3. Choose the Region you want to launch the product in, for example, US East (N. Virginia).
NoteAs you make changes to your configuration, you might notice that the Ami Id at the bottom of the screen updates. The AMI ID has the form ami-<identifier>, for example, ami-123example456. Each version of each product in each Region has a different AMI.
This AMI ID allows you to specify the correct AMI to use when launching the product. The Ami Alias is a similar ID that is easier to use in automation.
For more information about the AMI alias, see Using AMI aliases (p. 30).
4. Select Continue to Launch.
Step 4: Launching your software on Amazon EC2
Step 4: Launching your software on Amazon EC2
Before you launch your Amazon EC2 instance, you need to decide if you want to launch with 1-Click launch or if you want to launch using the Amazon EC2 Console. 1-Click launch helps you launch quickly with recommended default options such as security groups and instance types. With 1-Click launch, you can also see your estimated monthly bill. If you prefer more options, such as launching in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) or using Spot Instances, then you should launch using the Amazon EC2 Console. The following procedures walk you through subscribing to the product and launching an EC2 instance using either 1-Click launch or the Amazon EC2 Console.
Launching on Amazon EC2 using 1-Click launch
To launch on Amazon EC2 using 1-Click launch
1. On the Launch this software page, choose Launch from website in the Choose Action dropdown, and review the default settings. If you want to change any of them, do the following:
• In the EC2 Instance Type dropdown list, choose an instance type.
• In the VPC Settings and Subnet Settings dropdown lists, select the network settings you want to use.
• In the Security Group Settings, choose an existing security group, or choose Create New Based On Seller Settings to accept the default settings. For more information about security groups, see Amazon EC2 security groups for Linux instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.
• Expand Key Pair, and choose an existing key pair if you have one. If you don't have a key pair, you're prompted to create one. For more information about Amazon EC2 key pairs, see Amazon EC2 key pairs.
2. When you're satisfied with your settings, choose Launch.
Your new instance is launched with the WordPress Certified by Bitnami and Automattic software running on it. From here, you can view the instance details, create another instance, or view all instances of your software.
Launching on Amazon EC2 Using Launch with EC2 Console
To launch on Amazon EC2 Using Launch with EC2 Console
1. On the Launch on EC2 page, choose the Launch with EC2 Console view, and then select an AMI version from the Select a Version list.
2. Review the Firewall Settings, Installation Instructions, and Release Notes, and then choose Launch with EC2 Console.
3. In the EC2 console, launch your AMI using the Request Instance Wizard. Follow the instructions in Get started with Amazon EC2 Linux instances to navigate through the wizard.
Step 5: Managing your software
At any time, you can manage your software subscriptions in AWS Marketplace by using the Manage Subscriptions page of the AWS Marketplace console.
To manage your software
1. Navigate to the AWS Marketplace console, and choose Manage subscriptions.
2. On the Manage subscriptions page:
Step 6: Terminating your instance
• View your instance status by product
• View your current monthly charges
• Run a new instance
• View seller profiles for your instance
• Manage your instances
• Link directly to your Amazon EC2 instance so you can configure your software
Step 6: Terminating your instance
When you've decided that you no longer need the instance, you can terminate it.
NoteYou can't restart a terminated instance. However, you can launch additional instances of the same AMI.
To terminate your instance
1. Navigate to the AWS Marketplace console, and choose Manage subscriptions.
2. On the Manage subscriptions page, choose the software subscription that you want to terminate an instance of, and select Manage.
3. On the specific subscription page, choose View instances from the Actions dropdown list.
4. Select the Region that the instance you want to terminate is in. This opens the Amazon EC2 Console and shows the instances in that Region in a new tab. If necessary, you can return to this tab to see the Instance ID for the instance to close.
5. In the Amazon EC2 Console, choose the Instance ID to open the Instance details page.
6. From the Instance state dropdown list, choose Terminate instance.
7. Choose Terminate when prompted for confirmation.
Termination takes a few minutes to complete.
For more information
For more information about product categories and types, see Product categories (p. 11) and Product types (p. 17).
For more information about Amazon EC2, see the service documentation at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Documentation.
To learn more about AWS, see https://aws.amazon.com/.
Supported Regions
For software products, the seller chooses which AWS Regions to make their software available in, as well as the instance types. We encourage making products available in all available Regions and on all instance types that make sense. The AWS Marketplace website is available worldwide and supports the following Regions:
• North America
• US East (Ohio)
• US East (N. Virginia)
• US West (N. California)
• US West (Oregon)
• AWS GovCloud (US-East)
• AWS GovCloud (US-West)
• Canada (Central)
• Africa
• Africa (Cape Town)
• South America
• South America (São Paulo)
• EMEA
• Europe (Frankfurt)
• Europe (Ireland)
• Europe (London)
• Europe (Milan)
• Europe (Paris)
• Europe (Stockholm)
• APAC
• Asia Pacific (Singapore)
• Asia Pacific (Sydney)
• Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
• Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
• Asia Pacific (Seoul)
• Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
• Asia Pacific (Osaka)
• Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
• Middle East
• Middle East (Bahrain)
For more information about supported Regions for data products, see AWS Data Exchange endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference.
Infrastructure Software
Product categories
The AWS Marketplace website is organized into primary categories, with subcategories under each. You can search and filter based on the categories and subcategories.
Topics
• Infrastructure Software (p. 11)
• DevOps (p. 12)
• Business Applications (p. 12)
• Machine Learning (p. 13)
• IoT (p. 14)
• Professional Services (p. 14)
• Desktop applications (p. 15)
• Data Products (p. 16)
• Industries (p. 16)
Infrastructure Software
The products in this category provide infrastructure-related solutions.
Backup and Recovery
Products used for storage and backup solutions.
Data Analytics
Products used for data analysis.
Security
Security products for your infrastructure.
High Performance Computing
High performance computing products.
Migration
Products used for migration projects.
Network Infrastructure
Products used to create networking solutions.
Operating Systems
Packaged Linux and Windows operating systems.
Security
Security products for your infrastructure.
Storage
Applications focused on job roles involved in storage.
DevOps
DevOps
The products in this category provide tools focused on developers and developer teams.
Application Development
Products used for application development.
Application Servers
Servers used for application development.
Application Stacks
Stacks used for application development.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Products used for CI/CD.
Infrastructure as Code
Products used for infrastructure.
Testing
Products used for testing.
Agile Lifecycle Management Products used for Agile SDLM.
Issues & Bug Tracking
Products used by developer teams to track and manage software bugs.
Monitoring
Products used for monitoring operating software.
Log Analysis
Products used for logging and log analysis.
Source Control
Tools used to manage and maintain source control.
Testing
Products used for automated testing of software products.
Business Applications
The products in this category help you run your business.
IT Business Management
Products used for enabling IT business management in your organization.
Contact Center
Products used for enabling Contact Centers in your organization.
Blockchain
Products used for blockchain.
Machine Learning
Human Resources
Products used for enabling Human Resources in your organization.
Business Intelligence
Products used for enabling business intelligence in your organization.
Collaboration & Productivity
Products used to enable collaboration in your business.
Content Management
Products focused on content management.
CRM
Tools focused on customer relationship management.
ecommerce
Products that provide ecommerce solutions.
eLearning
Products that provide eLearning solutions.
Project Management
Tools for project management.
Machine Learning
The products in this category provide machine learning algorithms and model packages that work with Amazon SageMaker.
ML Solutions
Machine learning solutions.
Data Labeling Services
Products that provide data labeling capability.
Computer Vision
Products that enable computer vision capability.
Natural Language Processing
Products that enable natural language processing capability.
Speech Recognition
Products that enable speech recognition capability.
Text
Products that enable text learning capability. Examples include classification, clustering, edit/
processing, embedding, generation, grammar/parsing, identification, names and entity recognition, sentiment analysis, summarization, text-to-speech, and translation.
Image
Products that enable image analysis capability. Examples include 3D, captioning, classification, edit/
processing, embedding/feature extraction, generation, grammar/parsing, handwriting recognition, human/faces, object detection, segmentation/pixel labeling, and text/OCR.
IoT
Video
Products that enable video analysis capability. Examples include classification, object detection, edit/processing, anomaly detection, speaker identification, motion, re-identification, summarization, text/captioning, and tracking.
Audio
Products that enable audio analysis capability. Examples include speaker identification, speech-to-text, classification, song identification, and segmentation.
Structured
Products that enable structured analysis capability. Examples include classification, clustering, dimensionality reduction, factorization models, feature engineering, ranking, regression, and time-series forecasting.
IoT
Products used to create IoT-related solutions.
Analytics
Analytical products for IoT solutions.
Applications
Application products for the IoT solutions space.
Device Connectivity
Products used to manage device connectivity.
Device Management
Products used to manage devices.
Device Security
Products used to manage security for your IoT devices.
Industrial IoT
Products focused on providing industrial-related IoT solutions.
Smart Home & City
Products used to enable smart home and smart city solutions.
Professional Services
The products in this category provide consulting services related to AWS Marketplace products.
Assessments
Evaluation of your current operating environment to find the right solutions for your organization.
Implementation
Help with configuration, setup, and deployment of third-party software.
Desktop applications
Managed Services
End-to-end environment management on your behalf.
Premium Support
Access to guidance and assistance from experts, designed for your needs.
Training
Tailored workshops, programs, and educational tools provided by experts to help your employees learn best practices.
Desktop applications
The products in this category provide infrastructure-related solutions.
Desktop Applications
Desktop applications and utilities for general productivity and specific job role enablement.
AP and Billing
Applications used for job roles focused on accounts payable and billing.
Application and the Web
General purpose and web environment applications.
Development
Applications used for development.
Business Intelligence
Applications used by job roles focused on managing business intelligence.
CAD and CAM
Applications used by job roles focused on computer-aided design and manufacture.
GIS and Mapping
Applications used by job roles focused on GIS and mapping.
Illustration and Design
Applications for job roles focused on illustration and design.
Media and Encoding
Application used for job roles involved in media and encoding.
Productivity and Collaboration
Applications focused on enabling productivity and enabling collaboration.
Project Management
Application for project manager job roles.
Security/Storage/Archiving
Applications focused on job roles involved in security, storage, and data archiving.
Utilities
Utility-focused applications for various job roles.
Data Products
Data Products
The products in this category are sets of file-based data. For more information, see the AWS Data Exchange User Guide.
Industries
Education & Research
Products aimed at providing education and research solutions.
Financial Services
Products that enable financial services in your organization.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Products used in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
Media & Entertainment
Media-related products and solutions.
Industrial
Industry-related products and solutions.
Energy
Energy-related products and solutions.
AMI-based server products
Product types
AWS Marketplace includes popular open source and commercial software, as well as free and paid data products. These products are available in different ways: as individual Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), as a cluster of AMIs deployed through an AWS CloudFormation template, as software as a service (SaaS), as professional services, and as AWS Data Exchange data products.
For more details about these product types, see the following topics:
• AMI-based server products (p. 17) (including AMI and private image products)
• Container products (p. 31)
• Desktop products (p. 40)
• Machine learning products (p. 40)
• Professional services products (p. 41)
• SaaS products (p. 42)
• Data products (p. 43)
AMI-based server products
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an image of a server, including an operating system and often additional software, which runs on AWS.
The software listed in AWS Marketplace is only available to run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It's not available for download.
On AWS Marketplace, you can search for AMIs (with search suggestions), view product reviews submitted by other customers, subscribe and launch AMIs, and manage your subscriptions. All AWS Marketplace products have been verified for quality and pre-configured for 1-Click launch capability on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.
Both AMI and software as a service (SaaS) product listings are from trusted sellers. AMI products run within a customer's AWS account. You retain more control over software configuration and over the servers that run the software, but you also have additional responsibilities regarding server configuration and maintenance.
The AWS Marketplace catalog contains a curated selection of open source and commercial software from well-known sellers. Many products on AWS Marketplace can be purchased by the hour.
The AMI catalog is a community resource where people and development teams can list and exchange software or projects under development, without having to go through extensive vetting. Listings in the community AMI catalog may or may not be from well-known sellers and generally have not undergone additional investigations.
An AWS Marketplace product contains one AMI for each AWS Region in which the product is available.
These AMIs are identical except for their location. Additionally, when sellers update their product with the latest patches and updates, they may add another set of AMIs to the product.
Some AWS Marketplace products may launch multiple instances of an AMI because they're deployed as a cluster using AWS CloudFormation templates. This cluster of instances, along with additional AWS infrastructure services configured by the CloudFormation template, act as a single product deployment.
AWS CloudFormation template
AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications that run in AWS.
AMI subscriptions
A CloudFormation template describes the various AWS resources that you want, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database instances. CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you. For more information, see Getting started with AWS CloudFormation.
Using AWS CloudFormation templates
Software sellers may offer CloudFormation templates to define a preferred deployment topology consisting of multiple AMI instances and other AWS resources. If a CloudFormation template is available for a product, it will be listed as a deployment option on the product listing page.
You can use an AMI to deploy a single Amazon EC2 instance. You can use a CloudFormation template to deploy multiple instances of an AMI that act as a cluster—along with AWS resources such as Amazon RDS, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or any other AWS service—as a single solution.
Topics
• AMI subscriptions (p. 18)
• AMI products with contract pricing (p. 18)
• Metering-enabled AMI products (p. 21)
• Cost allocation tagging in AMI products (p. 21)
• Private image build (p. 23)
• Using AMI aliases (p. 30)
AMI subscriptions
Some Amazon Machine Image (AMI)-based software products offer an annual subscription pricing model, in which you make a one-time upfront payment and then pay no hourly usage fee for the next 12 months. You can apply one annual subscription to an AWS Marketplace software product to one Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. You can also continue to launch and run AWS Marketplace software products using hourly pricing. Charges for using Amazon EC2 and other services from AWS are
Some Amazon Machine Image (AMI)-based software products offer an annual subscription pricing model, in which you make a one-time upfront payment and then pay no hourly usage fee for the next 12 months. You can apply one annual subscription to an AWS Marketplace software product to one Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. You can also continue to launch and run AWS Marketplace software products using hourly pricing. Charges for using Amazon EC2 and other services from AWS are