# Images and Marketplace

Marketplace Items:

* Provides a powerful view and enable actions to keep marketplace items synchronized across the stamps
* Optimize performance and save bandwidth while downloading items from Azure
* Offers effective ways to manage different versions of marketplace items
* Allows triggering multiple downloads across multiple stamps at the same time

VM Images:

* Ability to add VM images to multiple stamps at the same time
* Optimize performance and save bandwidth while publishing VM images across stamps
* Synchronize VM Images and maintain consistent versions across multiple stamps

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[offline-marketplace-download](https://docs.cloudassert.com/azure-stack-hub-multi-stamp-management/2012.3/key-concepts/admin/offline-marketplace-download)
{% endcontent-ref %}