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A retail organization plans to deploy a third-party firewall appliance as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on Amazon EC2. The organization decides to subscribe to the appliance through AWS Marketplace. How are the billing and software maintenance responsibilities structured for this deployment?

  1. Both the software subscription fee and the EC2 instance infrastructure charges are billed together through the organization's AWS account, while the organization remains responsible for configuring and patching the firewall software.Answer
  2. B
    The software subscription fee is billed through the AWS account, but AWS automatically assumes responsibility for configuring, updating, and patching the third-party software on the EC2 instance.
  3. C
    The software subscription requires a one-time upfront capital expense (CapEx) paid directly to the software vendor, while the EC2 infrastructure charges are billed monthly as operating expenses (OpEx) through AWS.
  4. D
    The software licensing fee is billed directly by the third-party software vendor under a separate billing system, while only the underlying EC2 infrastructure charges appear on the AWS bill.

Answer

Both the software subscription fee and the EC2 instance infrastructure charges are billed together through the organization's AWS account, while the organization remains responsible for configuring and patching the firewall software.
AWS Marketplace consolidates the billing for third-party software subscriptions directly onto the customer's AWS bill alongside their AWS infrastructure usage (such as EC2 instance charges). However, purchasing through AWS Marketplace does not alter the Shared Responsibility Model. Because the software is deployed as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on the customer's EC2 instances, the customer is still responsible for configuring, patching, and maintaining the software and the operating system.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the procurement method for the third-party software subscription.
Purchasing through AWS Marketplace aggregates the software subscription charges onto the customer's AWS bill.
This determines how the licensing fee is collected and processed.
2
Identify the infrastructure pricing for the underlying Amazon EC2 instance.
The infrastructure consumption charges for running the EC2 instance are billed to the customer's AWS bill.
This establishes that both software and hardware compute resources are consolidated into one billing stream.
3
Apply the AWS Shared Responsibility Model to the deployed Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
Since the software runs as an AMI within the customer's virtual private cloud (VPC), the customer holds the responsibility for guest operating system patching and software configuration.
This clarifies the maintenance boundary between the cloud provider and the customer.

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AWS Marketplace Billing Integration and the Shared Responsibility Model
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