Tag: SaaS Lens

AWS experts break down what SaaS providers should consider in designing and building their compliant solution. We’ll dive into how achieving compliance will be an ongoing process, but regular monitoring and reporting can help make adhering to these frameworks a standard part of business operations. Good security controls, data privacy, and data management should be foundational components of a SaaS application from the beginning.

Whether you’re taking the first steps toward planning your software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey, or about to launch your first product, the new Journey to SaaS guide is designed to help drive your efforts to build, migrate, secure, and optimize SaaS solutions on AWS. Use this roadmap to identify which stage you’re in and review the corresponding actions, motivations, questions, pain points, and AWS SaaS Factory resources.

One of the top challenges in operating a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution is measuring the resource consumption of individual tenants in order to understand their usage patterns, attribute costs, and more. The dynamic nature of SaaS environment and shifting needs makes it even more challenging. Explore how you can use the tenant resource consumption data you gathered to optimize your SaaS architecture, to improve operational footprint of SaaS environment and to drive business decisions.

A key challenge SaaS providers face is understanding the cost profile of their environment and the customers within it. Measuring the cost of each tenant in the system, understanding cost-effectiveness of product features, and accurately metering the margin in a SaaS solution are examples of abilities that are critical for SaaS success. Learn why breaking down the cost to different unit metrics, customers, features, segments, and business units is a requirement for any modern SaaS business.

Maximizing performance is a key area of focus for all architects. Achieving optimal performance, however, can be challenging in SaaS environments where multi-tenant workloads can make it difficult to efficiently profile and scale your environment. This post dives deep into the challenges, opportunities, and best practices of efficiently managing performance in multi-tenant SaaS environments on AWS. We’ll review these topics through the lens of an example multi-tenant search application.

Operational excellence is a key challenge for SaaS providers as it deals with the ability to run and monitor workloads effectively and to continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value. Implementing AWS best practices will enable you to handle and respond to continually shifting tenant workloads and usage patterns, and use data-driven insights to achieve desired business and technical outcomes.

Capturing, managing, and analyzing costs is an essential part of any SaaS business. Without a firm grasp on the cost profile of your SaaS environment, it will be difficult to assess the tiering and pricing models of your solution. Learn how the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected SaaS Lens identifies specific best practices that can help you improve the cost profile of a SaaS application. These play a key role in shaping the operational and scaling experience of your SaaS environment.

With the AWS PartnerCast First Look series of webinars, you are first in line for the latest launch news, program updates, and just-in-time learning. We understand the importance of being able to provide your customers with the latest and greatest information, which is why we’ve created First Look as a fast, convenient way to learn directly from AWS experts. Ideal for both business and technical learners, First Look webinars are available in a format that works with your busy schedule.

The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected SaaS Lens focuses on the reliability posture of your SaaS solution. The SaaS Lens helps AWS customers assess the overall reliability of their SaaS architecture, providing prescriptive guidance that enables better alignment of their architecture. There are several considerations to keep in mind when building or optimizing a SaaS solution for reliability. While some apply to all modern solutions, others are specific to SaaS and that’s the focus of this post.

DXC Technology created a serverless artificial intelligence-powered solution called CoDetect to help detect manifestations of COVID-19 (and other medical conditions) in CT scans. Learn about the AWS services DXC chose for this solution, and explore two functional use cases that demonstrate the benefits of DXC’s CoDetect design and implementation approach. CoDetect is a web-based app that allows end users to submit CT scan studies for an AI model analysis.