The AWS Marketplace Metering Service provides support for buying software along new pricing dimensions that are intended to better match the value you receive from software you use. These new dimensions include pricing by user, by host or by data.

With these new pricing dimensions, you can scale your software usage up or down without modifying your EC2 Instance and still pay through your AWS Marketplace bill. When your usage changes, the price you pay per hour changes. This means you only pay for the amount of software you need to operate your workloads. All usage will still be calculated at the end of the month, along with other AWS usage, and added to your existing AWS bill. This is a new level of flexibility in consumption based pricing.

Over the coming months, we anticipate dozens of our top sellers will make the minor changes to their products offered in AWS Marketplace to use our new flexible metering capability. We are pleased at launch to have worked with four vendors who moved to exploit our innovation and be ready with our software capability in AWS Marketplace: Aspera, Chef, SoftNAS, and Trend Micro. Learn more by exploring their products below.