Today, we’re asserting Buy with AWS, a brand new solution to uncover and buy options obtainable in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner websites. You can use Buy with AWS to speed up and streamline your product procurement course of on web sites exterior of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This function gives you the power to seek out, strive, and purchase options from Partner web sites utilizing your AWS account
AWS Marketplace is a curated digital retailer so that you can discover, purchase, deploy, and handle cloud options from Partners. Buy with AWS is one other step in the direction of AWS Marketplace making it straightforward so that you can discover and procure the best Partner options, when and the place you want them. You can conveniently discover and procure options in AWS Marketplace, via built-in AWS service consoles, and now on Partner web sites.
Accelerate cloud answer discovery and analysis
You can now uncover options from Partners obtainable for buy via AWS Marketplace as you discover options on the net past AWS.
Look for merchandise which might be “Available in AWS Marketplace” when searching on Partner websites, then speed up your analysis course of with quick entry to free trials, demo requests, and inquiries for customized pricing.
For instance, I need to consider Wiz to see the way it might help with my cloud safety necessities. While searching the Wiz web site, I come throughout a web page the place I see “Connect Wiz with Amazon Web Services (AWS)”.
I select Try with AWS. It asks me to check in to my AWS account if I’m not signed in already. I’m then offered with a Wiz and AWS co-branded web page for me to join the free trial.
The discovery expertise that you just see will fluctuate relying on sort of the Partner web site you’re procuring from. Wiz is an instance of how Buy with AWS may be applied by an unbiased software program vendor (ISV). Now, let’s take a look at an instance of an AWS Marketplace Channel Partner, or reseller, who operates a storefront of their very own.
I browse to the Bytes storefront with product listings from AWS Marketplace. I’ve the choice to filter and search from the curated product listings, which can be found in AWS Marketplace, on the Bytes web site.
I select View Details for Fortinet and see an choice to Request Private Offer from AWS.
As you’ll be able to inform, on a Channel Partner web site, you’ll be able to browse curated product listings obtainable in AWS Marketplace, filter merchandise, and request customized pricing immediately from their web site.
Streamline product procurement on AWS Partner websites
I had a seamless expertise utilizing Buy with AWS to entry a free trial for Wiz and flick through the Bytes storefront to request a personal supply.
Now I need to strive Databricks for one of many purposes I’m constructing. I join a Databricks trial via their web site.
I selected Upgrade and see Databricks is on the market in AWS Marketplace, which provides me the choice to Buy with AWS.
I select Buy with AWS, and after I check in to my AWS account, I land on a Databricks and AWS Marketplace co-branded procurement web page.
I full the acquisition on the co-branded procurement web page and proceed to arrange my Databricks account.
As you’ll be able to inform, I didn’t should navigate the problem of managing procurement processes for a number of distributors. I additionally didn’t have to talk with a gross sales consultant or onboard a brand new vendor in my billing system, which might have required a number of approvals and delayed the general course of.
Access centralized billing and advantages via AWS Marketplace
Because Buy with AWS purchases are transacted via and managed in AWS Marketplace, you additionally profit from the post-purchase expertise of AWS Marketplace, together with consolidated AWS billing, centralized subscription administration, and entry to value optimization instruments.
For instance, via the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, I can centrally handle all my AWS purchases, together with Buy with AWS purchases, from one dashboard. I can simply entry and course of invoices for all of my group’s AWS purchases. I additionally have to have legitimate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to handle subscriptions and make a purchase order via AWS Marketplace.
AWS Marketplace not solely simplifies my billing but in addition helps in sustaining governance over spending by serving to me handle buying authority and subscription entry for my group with centralized visibility and controls. I can handle my finances with pricing flexibility, value transparency, and AWS value administration instruments.
Buy with AWS for Partners
Buy with AWS permits Partners who promote or resell merchandise in AWS Marketplace to create new answer discovery and shopping for experiences for patrons on their very own web sites. By including name to motion (CTA) buttons to their web sites corresponding to “Buy with AWS”, “Try free with AWS”, “Request private offer”, and “Request demo”, Partners might help speed up product analysis and the path-to-purchase for patrons.
By integrating with AWS Marketplace APIs, Partners can show merchandise from the AWS Marketplace catalog, permit prospects to type and filter merchandise, and streamline personal presents. Partners implementing Buy with AWS can entry AWS Marketplace artistic and messaging assets for steerage on constructing their very own internet experiences. Partners who implement Buy with AWS can entry metrics for insights into engagement and conversion efficiency.
The Buy with AWS onboarding information within the AWS Marketplace Management Portal particulars how Partners can get began.
Learn extra
Visit the Buy with AWS web page to study extra and discover Partner websites that provide Buy with AWS.
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