Amazon Web Services announced Private Marketplace on November 27, 2018, as a way for organizations to assemble a catalog of approved AWS Marketplace products. Administrators would choose software against their procurement policies, then make that selection available to users. The announcement describes a company-managed selection rather than a new independent certification of the listed software. [S4]
The controls were described as applying across the AWS organization, with more detailed permissions available through Identity and Access Management, or IAM. Once the feature was enabled, people in that organization signing into AWS Marketplace would be redirected to the private catalog. AWS also offered company branding, including a logo, messages and a color scheme. [S4]
For a procurement team, the important distinction is between selecting the catalog and using it. The administrator decides which products meet company policy; users then find, buy and deploy from the approved selection. That division gives the catalog a practical role as a purchasing reference, but the announcement does not measure time savings or report a customer deployment. [S4]
The short launch notice does not explain what happens when a user seeks a product outside the approved catalog. It therefore should not be read as proof of a particular search restriction, subscription-blocking sequence or approval turnaround. Its supported scope is narrower: an organization-wide, administrator-curated catalog with IAM controls and redirected access. [S4]
Source documents
- AWS Marketplace Makes It Easier to Govern Software Procurement with Private Marketplacehttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/awsmarketplace-makes-it-easier-to-govern-software-procurement-with-privatemarketplace/