AWS Marketplace
AWS Tutorial: AWS Marketplace
Welcome to the AWS Marketplace lesson. What if you want to run a third-party firewall, a custom WordPress deployment, or a massive proprietary SaaS tool inside your AWS environment?
Why Learn AWS Marketplace?
You don't need to reinvent the wheel. If your company already uses third-party software (like Splunk, Datadog, or Palo Alto Networks), you can quickly deploy pre-configured versions of them directly into your AWS account.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn:
- What the AWS Marketplace is.
- How it simplifies software procurement and billing.
The Cloud App Store
AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that makes it easy for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software.
Instead of going to a vendor's website, negotiating a contract, and manually installing their software onto your EC2 instances, you can click "Subscribe" in the AWS Marketplace. AWS will instantly launch a pre-configured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with the software pre-installed into your VPC.
Simplified Billing: When you buy third-party software through the Marketplace, the cost of that software is simply added to your monthly AWS bill. You only have to pay one vendor (AWS) instead of dozens of different software companies!
Exercise
?Which AWS service allows you to easily find, buy, and deploy pre-configured third-party software applications (like firewalls or monitoring tools)?