What Is Service Catalog?
Service Catalog enables organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for Amazon. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, databases, and more to complete multi-tier application architectures.
Service Catalog allows organizations to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and helps organizations achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements. End users can quickly deploy only the approved IT services they need, following the constraints set by your organization.
Service Catalog provides the following benefits:
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Standardization
Administer and manage approved assets by restricting where the product can be launched, the type of instance that can be used, and many other configuration options. The result is a standardized landscape for product provisioning for your entire organization.
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Self-service discovery and launch
Users browse listings of products (services or applications) that they have access to, locate the product that they want to use, and launch it all on their own as a provisioned product.
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Fine-grain access control
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Extensibility and version control
Administrators can add a product to any number of portfolios and restrict it without creating another copy. Updating the product to a new version propagates the update to all products in every portfolio that references it.
For more information, see the Service Catalog detail page
The Service Catalog API provides programmatic control over all end-user actions as an alternative to using the Amazon Web Services Management Console. For more information, see Service Catalog Developer Guide.
Video: Introduction to Amazon Service Catalog
This video (7:27) describes how to create, organize, and govern a curated catalog of Amazon products, and share products with permissions level. As a result, end users can quickly provision approved IT resources without direct access to the underlying Amazon services.