AWS Sets Up One-Stop Shop for Cloudware

Oh, look, Amazon Web Services’s got a one-stop cloud store.
It’s renting third-party cloudware by the hour or by the month that’s pre-configured for its cloud at a new online AWS Marketplace.
In a click users can float software from folks like IBM, Microsoft, Canonical, Red Hat, SUSE, SAP, Zend, Couchbase, CA and Check Point and get a single bundled bill.
Beats scrambling around getting the same stuff off individual web sites and sorting through a bunch of bills.
The wares include business applications, tools, platforms, whole stacks, security and networking. Users can discover and compare.
The scheme is also supposed to make customer acquisition, managing accounts and billing easier for the merchants.

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