AWS Marketplace announces amendments for AMI annual agreements

AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of amendments for annual agreements on Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products purchased on AWS Marketplace. This allows customers with annual agreements to switch the Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance types for the AMI solution they purchased from AWS Marketplace.

AWS customers who run AMI software from AWS Marketplace for extended periods choose to use annual plans which offer discounts over on-demand pricing. Previously, annual agreements only provided discounts on the initially selected EC2 instance types, and if customers later needed to support additional users by adding more instances or upgrading to larger instance types, they had to pay on-demand rates or purchase additional annual plans.

Customers can now easily modify their AMI annual agreements in the AWS Marketplace Console. They can add new instance types or switch to a different instance type at any time. If the new instance type results in a higher cost, customers will retain their original discount and AWS Marketplace will automatically calculate the pro-rated cost for the new instance types. Customers also retain the original end date of the agreement for the new instance types, simplifying renewals.. Amendments are available for all AMI products in the AWS Marketplace with annual pricing plans, and they will support both existing and new agreements.