AWS Marketplace expands self-service listing experience for AMI products with CloudFormation templates

AWS Marketplace now offers a self-service listing experience for sellers listing or managing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products with CloudFormation templates (CFT). This launch expands the self-service listing capability previously available for single-AMI, software as a service (SaaS), and container products.

With this release, sellers can now create and manage AMI with CloudFormation listings using a new UI experience, replacing the manual spreadsheet process. During listing creation, sellers are guided through a step-by-step workflow to fill in required information about their listings. All changes are initially visible only to the sellers, allowing them to preview and test the product. Sellers who are ready to publish a product publicly can request a visibility change through the UI, prompting a final validation review by the AWS Marketplace team.

Sellers can access this experience through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal or they can programmatically access the new functionality through AWS Marketplace Catalog API. For many submitted requests, such as an update to a product description, the AWS Marketplace catalog system automatically validates the requested changes and updates the listings.

To learn more about this feature, see the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide and the Catalog API guide. To try the feature now, sellers can visit the server product page in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal.