Managing AWS Marketplace Products Using AWS Service Catalog Managing and Adding AWS Marketplace Products Manually

Adding AWS Marketplace Products to Your Portfolio

You can add AWS Marketplace products to your portfolios to make those products available to your AWS Service Catalog end users.

AWS Marketplace is an online store in which you can find, subscribe to, and immediately start using a large selection of software and services. The types of products in AWS Marketplace include databases, application servers, testing tools, monitoring tools, content management tools, and business intelligence software. AWS Marketplace is available at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace. Note that you can't add software as a service (SaaS) products from AWS Marketplace to AWS Service Catalog.

You distribute an AWS Marketplace product to AWS Service Catalog end users by copying the product with the AWS CloudFormation template to AWS Service Catalog, and then adding the product to a portfolio.

Note

AWS Service Catalog does not support distributing AWS Marketplace products to AWS Service Catalog end users using a Terraform Open Source or Terraform Cloud product template.

AWS Marketplace supports AWS Service Catalog directly or subscribe and add products using the manual option. We recommend adding products using the functionality specifically designed for AWS Service Catalog.

Managing AWS Marketplace Products Using AWS Service Catalog

You can add your subscribed AWS Marketplace products directly to AWS Service Catalog using a custom interface. In AWS Marketplace, choose Service Catalog. For more information, see Copying Products to AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Marketplace Help and FAQ.

Managing and Adding AWS Marketplace Products Manually

Complete the following steps to subscribe to an AWS Marketplace product, define that product in an AWS CloudFormation template, and add the template to a AWS Service Catalog portfolio.

To subscribe to an AWS Marketplace product

Go to AWS Marketplace at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace.
Browse the products or search to find the product that you want to add to your AWS Service Catalog portfolio. Choose the product to view the product details page.
Choose Continue to view the fulfillment page, and then choose the Manual Launch tab.

The information on the fulfillment page includes the supported Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, the supported AWS Regions, and the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID that the product uses for each AWS region. Note that some choices will affect cost. You will use this information to customize the AWS CloudFormation template in later steps.
Choose Accept Terms to subscribe to the product.

After you subscribe to a product, you can access the information on the product fulfillment page in AWS Marketplace at any time by choosing Your Software, and then choosing the product.

To define your AWS Marketplace product in an AWS CloudFormation template

To complete the following steps, you will use one of the AWS CloudFormation sample templates as a starting point, and you will customize the template so that it represents your AWS Marketplace product. To access the sample templates, see Sample Templates in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

On the Sample Templates page in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide, choose an AWS Region for your product. The AWS Region must be supported by your AWS Marketplace product. You can view the supported regions on the product fulfillment page in AWS Marketplace.
To view a list of service sample templates that are appropriate for the Region, choose the Services link.
You can use any of the samples that are appropriate for your needs as a starting point. The steps in this procedure use the Amazon EC2 instance in a security group template. To view the sample template, choose View , and then save a copy of the template locally so that you can edit it. Your local file must have the .template extension.
Open your template file in a text editor.
Customize the description at the top of the template. Your description might look like the following example:

"Description": "Launches a LAMP stack from AWS Marketplace",
Customize the InstanceType parameter so that it includes only EC2 instance types that are supported by your product. If your template includes unsupported EC2 instance types, the product will fail to launch for your end users.
1. On the product fulfillment page in AWS Marketplace, view the supported EC2 instance types in the Pricing Details section.
2. In your template, change the default instance type to a supported EC2 instance type of your choice.
3. Edit the AllowedValues list so that it includes only EC2 instance types that are supported by your product.
4. Remove any EC2 instance types that you do not want your end users to use when they launch the product from the AllowedValueslist .
When you are done editing the InstanceType parameter, it might look similar to the following example:
```
    "InstanceType" : {
      "Description" : "EC2 instance type",
      "Type" : "String",
      "Default" : "m1.small",
      "AllowedValues" : [ "t1.micro", "m1.small", "m1.medium", "m1.large", "m1.xlarge", "m2.xlarge", "m2.2xlarge", "m2.4xlarge", "c1.medium", "c1.xlarge", "c3.large", "c3.large", "c3.xlarge", "c3.xlarge", "c3.4xlarge", "c3.8xlarge" ],
      "ConstraintDescription" : "Must be a valid EC2 instance type."
    },
```
In the Mappings section of your template, edit the AWSInstanceType2Arch mappings so that only supported EC2 instance types and architectures are included.
1. Edit the list of mappings by removing all EC2 instance types that are not included in the AllowedValues list for the InstanceType parameter.
2. Edit the Arch value for each EC2 instance type to be the architecture type that is supported by your product. Valid values are PV64, HVM64, and HVMG2. To learn which architecture your product supports, refer to the product details page in AWS Marketplace. To learn which architectures are supported by EC2 instance families, see Amazon Linux AMI Instance Type Matrix.
When you have finished editing the AWSInstanceType2Arch mappings, it might look similar to the following example:
```
    "AWSInstanceType2Arch" : {
      "t1.micro"    : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "m1.small"    : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "m1.medium"   : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "m1.large"    : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "m1.xlarge"   : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "m2.xlarge"   : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "m2.2xlarge"  : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "m2.4xlarge"  : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "c1.medium"   : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "c1.xlarge"   : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "c3.large"    : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "c3.xlarge"   : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "c3.2xlarge"  : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "c3.4xlarge"  : { "Arch" : "PV64"  },
      "c3.8xlarge"  : { "Arch" : "PV64"  }
    }
,
```
In the Mappings section of your template, edit the AWSRegionArch2AMI mappings to associate each AWS Region with the corresponding architecture and AMI ID for your product.
1. On the product fulfillment page in AWS Marketplace, view the AMI ID that your product uses for each AWS Region, as in the following example:
2. In your template, remove the mappings for any AWS Regions that you do not support.
3. Edit the mapping for each region to remove the unsupported architectures (PV64, HVM64, or HVMG2) and their associated AMI IDs.
4. For each remaining AWS Region and architecture mapping, specify the corresponding AMI ID from the product details page in AWS Marketplace.
When you have finished editing the AWSRegionArch2AMI mappings, your code might look similar to the following example:
```
    "AWSRegionArch2AMI" : {
      "us-east-1"        : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "us-west-2"        : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "us-west-1"        : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "eu-west-1"        : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "eu-central-1"     : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "ap-northeast-1"   : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "ap-southeast-1"   : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "ap-southeast-2"   : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"},
      "sa-east-1"        : {"PV64" : "ami-nnnnnnnn"}
    }
```
You can now use the template to add the product to a AWS Service Catalog portfolio. If you want to make additional changes, see Working with AWS CloudFormation Templates to learn more about templates.

To add your AWS Marketplace product to a AWS Service Catalog portfolio

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and navigate to the AWS Service Catalog administrator console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.
On the Portfolios page, choose the portfolio to which you want to add your AWS Marketplace product.
On the portfolio details page, choose Upload new product.
Type the requested product and support details.
On the Version details page, choose Upload a template file, choose Browse, and then choose your template file.
Type a version title and description.
Choose Next.
On the Review page, verify that the summary is accurate, and then choose Confirm and upload. The product is added your portfolio. It is now available to end users who have access to the portfolio.

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