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Should we list on more than one cloud marketplace, or is AWS enough?

The short answer

Follow your customers, but the data leans toward breadth. Tackle's survey work found companies transacting on all three clouds report around 29% of revenue through marketplaces versus 3% for single cloud sellers, and most companies now co-sell with more than one provider. That said, each extra marketplace costs real engineering and operations work for entitlements, metering and private offers, so add the second one when you have actually lost a deal for not being on it. In practice most B2B SaaS starts on AWS, adds Azure the first time a Microsoft heavy or regulated enterprise asks, and adds Google Cloud last.

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Why we picked it The benchmark dataset for marketplace and co-sell: multi cloud sellers at 29% of revenue through marketplaces versus 3% for single cloud, and 92% of companies saying cloud partner attention is the hard part.

The 2025 State of Cloud GTM Report

From Tackle 25 min read

  • Respondents expect marketplace to go from 20 to 32 percent of revenue, and top performers already run 50 percent through it.
  • Multi-cloud sellers see 39 percent of deals influenced by co-sell versus 18 percent for single-cloud sellers.
  • Access to a customer's committed cloud spend is the top benefit, named by 74 percent, ahead of deal acceleration at 47 percent.
  • 92 percent still rate engaging the cloud provider itself as challenging, which is the real bottleneck.
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Why we picked it Explains the two things that make Azure worth the effort: customers can buy against an existing Microsoft agreement or cloud commitment, and your listing surfaces inside Microsoft 365, Dynamics and Power Platform.

Overview of Microsoft Marketplace for publishers

From Microsoft Learn 8 min read

  • Listing reaches customers across 141 geographies, with Microsoft handling tax in dozens of managed markets.
  • The real lever is that purchases can count toward a customer's Azure consumption commitment, which changes their budget math.
  • Offers surface inside Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and the Azure portal, not just on the storefront.
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Why we picked it AWS explaining its own co-sell machinery: business planning in Partner Central, partner matching, multi partner deals that average six times larger, and APIs to pull it into your CRM.

Unlocking Synergies: Maximizing Co-Sell Opportunities with AWS

From AWS Partner Network Blog by Priya Bains 9 min read

  • Cites Canalys 2024: co-selling partners saw 51 percent higher revenue growth, 65 percent higher close rates and 54 percent larger deals.
  • Multi-partner deals average six times larger than single-partner deals, and 43 percent of customers use four or more partners.
  • Forrester puts ISV deal closure 50 percent faster when the transaction runs through AWS Marketplace.
  • Practical unlock: link Partner Central to your Marketplace account, since AWS sellers retire quota on private-offer co-sells.
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