AWS marketplace: Free-trial detection guidance moved to EventBridge/DescribeAgreement

Service: marketplace · 2026-10-16 · Documentation low

File: marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-free-trials.md

Summary

Replaces the SNS notification bullet with EventBridge events and instructs sellers to use the DescribeAgreement API to determine free-trial status, retaining SNS as an option for pre-July 15, 2026 sellers.

Security assessment

Describes how to query agreement state for billing/free-trial logic; it is functional guidance, not a security control or vulnerability fix.

Evidence

  * Sellers also receive [Amazon EventBridge events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-eventbridge-integration.html) when new subscriptions are created. To check whether an agreement is a free trial, use the `DescribeAgreement` API. If you registered your seller account on or before July 15, 2026, you can also receive [Amazon SNS notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-notification.html), which include an `isFreeTrialTermPresent` flag.

Diff

diff --git a/marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-free-trials.md b/marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-free-trials.md
index cc82c36..546d3f2 100644
--- a//marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-free-trials.md
+++ b//marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-free-trials.md
@@ -19 +19 @@ Each AWS account can only use a free trial for a SaaS product once. The free usa
-  * Sellers also receive [Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-notification.html) when new subscriptions are created. Amazon SNS notifications include an `isFreeTrialTermPresent` flag to identify free trial agreements.
+  * Sellers also receive [Amazon EventBridge events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-eventbridge-integration.html) when new subscriptions are created. To check whether an agreement is a free trial, use the `DescribeAgreement` API. If you registered your seller account on or before July 15, 2026, you can also receive [Amazon SNS notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/saas-notification.html), which include an `isFreeTrialTermPresent` flag.