CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing, and Support Practice Question
Which AWS service provides a marketplace where customers can find, buy, and deploy software from third-party vendors that runs on AWS infrastructure?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mix-up: candidates confuse AWS Service Catalog (which also manages software) with AWS Marketplace, but Service Catalog is for internal governance and approval of pre-selected products, not for discovering and purchasing third-party software from an external marketplace.
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AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace is the correct service because it is a curated digital catalog that enables customers to find, buy, and deploy third-party software solutions that run on AWS infrastructure. It offers pre-configured software, including AMIs, SaaS subscriptions, and container images, with integrated billing through AWS. This directly matches the question's requirement for a marketplace for third-party software deployment.
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Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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AWS Service Catalog
Why it's wrong here
AWS Service Catalog enables organizations to create and manage curated portfolios of approved AWS resources—such as Amazon EC2 instances, AMIs, and CloudFormation templates—that internal users can provision on demand with governance constraints. While it can incorporate third-party products, it is fundamentally an internal governance and self-service provisioning tool, not a public marketplace. Service Catalog does not handle commercial transactions, pricing contracts, or independent software vendor listings; it administers what an organization has already chosen to allow, so it is not where you would go to purchase third-party software.
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AWS Marketplace
Why this is correct
AWS Marketplace is the official digital store where customers can discover, subscribe to, and deploy third-party software, including SaaS applications, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), container images, and CloudFormation templates, from thousands of independent software vendors. It supports multiple pricing models—hourly, monthly, annual, and bring-your-own-license—and charges usage to the customer's AWS bill, enabling consolidated billing and centralized procurement. This makes AWS Marketplace the correct service for purchasing and managing third-party software in an AWS environment.
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AWS Partner Network
Why it's wrong here
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global partner program that provides business, marketing, and technical enablement—such as competencies, funding, and training—to consulting and technology partners who build solutions on AWS. It is an ecosystem of partners, not a catalog or transaction platform. You cannot browse, subscribe to, or purchase third-party software directly through APN; its purpose is to help partners grow their AWS-based practices, not to serve as a software procurement marketplace.
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Amazon AppFlow
Why it's wrong here
Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that allows users to securely transfer data between software-as-a-service applications like Salesforce and Slack and AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift using a visual, no-code interface. It focuses on automating data flows, transformations, and event-triggered pipelines, not on software discovery or licensing. AppFlow has no concept of a catalog of third-party products for purchase, and it does not offer procurement or billing features, making it an incorrect choice for buying software.
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