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Difficulty: HardAWS Marketplace

A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. A developer in a member account subscribes to a 12-month contract for a third-party security scanner via AWS Marketplace. Six months into the contract, due to a corporate restructuring, this member account is removed from the company's AWS Organization and becomes a standalone account. How are the remaining six months of the software subscription contract handled and billed?

  1. A
    The subscription is immediately terminated, and the original management account is charged a contract cancellation fee.
  2. B
    AWS automatically transfers the subscription ownership to the company's management account to ensure security tool continuity.
  3. The subscription remains associated with the member account, and the member account is billed directly for the remaining contract term.Answer
  4. D
    The remaining contract cost is converted to an on-demand hourly operating expense and billed to the company's management account.

Answer

The subscription remains associated with the member account, and the member account is billed directly for the remaining contract term.
The correct answer is correct because AWS Marketplace subscriptions are linked to the specific AWS account that made the purchase. When that account leaves the AWS Organization, the subscription stays with it, and billing shifts from the organization's management account to the standalone account.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the purchaser of the AWS Marketplace subscription.
The subscription is purchased by a developer inside a specific member account, meaning the subscription agreement is tied directly to that AWS account ID.
AWS Marketplace subscriptions are account-scoped, not organization-scoped.
2
Determine the impact of account migration out of AWS Organizations.
Removing the member account from the AWS Organization does not terminate or modify its active AWS Marketplace contracts.
The subscription agreement is independent of organization membership.
3
Analyze how billing changes after the account becomes standalone.
Charges are no longer aggregated to the organization's management account; instead, the standalone account is invoiced directly.
Consolidated billing only applies to accounts while they are active members of the organization.

Key Concept

AWS Marketplace subscription ownership and consolidated billing boundaries
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AWS Marketplace

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