This is close to what we'd want to replace the business model of a bunch of sketchy startups.<p>Startups with nice "todo"/personal data apps, etc. (cases where it's silly for the user to put their data in strangers' hands for no apparent reason) could "sell" them to users. If the startup disapeared, the user could still pay for web-app hosting.<p>The problem with using this particular AWS offering for that purpose is that every app would cost you hourly to run and would vastly underuse the computing resources that the user is paying for. It would be great if there were a similar offering based on a programming model where many apps could be provided by a single instance, or even perform on-demand provisioning.<p>I think this is the future! Somebody make it happen.
That's cool. However, people must still understand the software they are using. For instance, someone is selling Nginx 0.8. The latest version is 1.0.15.
Too bad it's currently US only if you want to sell something :(<p>"AWS Marketplace currently only supports Sellers with a US Subsidiary that can submit a W-9 tax form.
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I wish Google had a better version for AppEngine. One click provisioning and integration with Apps domains for authentication and user info with a SaaS style payment processing built in.
This is Huge! EC2 has made provisioning hardware and OS's stupid simple but building a rock solid stack is still beyond most people.<p>Now you can use supported production stacks, for instance <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0078VKDDI/ref=brs_res_product_title" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0078VKDDI/ref=brs_res...</a> is a supported Rails production stack its secure and has an SLA... This is a big deal.
I wonder if they will allow multiple apps sold from the marketplace to run on the same instance? I haven't gone through the process yet of setting up an instance via the marketplace, but I think that it's essential that I can a.) install multiple copies of the same software on an instance and run them via virtual hosting (for example running multiple Wordpress instances on a single node and b.) allow different kinds of software to run on a single instance (let's say an instance with a bug tracker and a log analysis tool, just as a made-up example).<p>The other thing that I find interesting is that there doesn't seem to be an API yet. I would love to be able to provision apps on nodes via an API to the marketplace.<p>I'm definitely going to play around with it a bit and see what's possible though.
The only thing that struck out at me as odd from this announcement was that it wasn't phrased like: "Amazon is excited to announce!" (Most of you probably know what I'm talking about)...<p><a href="http://blog.mailchimp.com/the-email-person-at-amazon-web-services-is-really-really-excited/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mailchimp.com/the-email-person-at-amazon-web-ser...</a><p>This is the <i>first</i> <i>ever</i> <i>ever</i> product announcement that I've <i>ever</i> seen Amazon make where they weren't excited to announce.<p>> Amazon Web Services is pleased to announce AWS Marketplace, an online store where customers can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS.
It's good to see this coming. However I don't understand the price structure some vendors are offering. Take Zend Server(below is the link) as an example, why should they charge a lot more on high-memory/high-cpu instance? Is it because the incurred traffic or usage is much higher? How does this compare to setup your own server but buy server license from them.<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0078UB5X6/ref=gtw_msl_title?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_r=1GWZN26BFTX1HZFPFDPP&pf_rd_m=A33KC2ESLMUT5Y&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=awsmp-gateway-1&pf_rd_p=1356058402&pf_rd_s=center-2" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0078UB5X6/ref=gtw_msl...</a>
A lot of us get those emails from amazon.com, like the one this morning, "Introducing AWS Marketplace -- Find and Buy Software that Runs on the AWS Cloud". This is great, but I have a friend who likes reading about these but doesn't want to launch servers. Is there some way people can subscribe to the Amazon AWS mailing list without creating an AWS account?
Quick write-up here: <a href="http://webdev360.com/amazon-cements-cloud-dominance-with-aws-marketplace-42063.html" rel="nofollow">http://webdev360.com/amazon-cements-cloud-dominance-with-aws...</a> I like how this isn't competing directly with MS's Azure Marketplace, which seems more focused on data, sector-specific SaaS, etc.
I'm confused. What's the difference, other than Amazon taking a 20% cut of my sale price, between this and the already existing paid AMIs? Yeah, there's a pretty website and all, but it doesn't seem like much value for 20%.
Pricing for selling/listing feels alright given the market place platform...<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/help/200904140/ref=help_ln_sibling" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/help/200904140/ref=help_l...</a><p>Free for open source and BYOL. 20% service fee for commercial.
The listing of Linux images including EC2 charges is scary. I hope this isn't their long term plans. If so, we'll have to start coding our way out of their vendor lock-in.<p>You're sending the wrong vibes, Amazon.
HN is not recognizing duplicate link submissions for the AWS market place...<p><a href="http://iterin.blogspot.in/2012/04/hacker-news-not-recognizing-duplicate.html" rel="nofollow">http://iterin.blogspot.in/2012/04/hacker-news-not-recognizin...</a>