Tag: SaaS on AWS

AWS Partners with the Financial Services Competency have demonstrated industry expertise, readily implemented solutions that align with AWS architectural best practices, and have expert staff with AWS Certifications. Learn about Kasasa’s multi-year migration from legacy architecture to AWS, the benefits of Kasasa’s software-as-a-service rewards platform, and how Kasasa brought 900+ community financial institutions along for this epic journey.

Video delivery is changing as viewers expect content providers to deliver an exceptional streaming experience with personalized and context-aware streaming. Broadpeak is an AWS Partner and leading provider of CDN and video streaming solutions that helps content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide. We recently spoke with Mathias Guille, VP Cloud Platform at Broadpeak, to learn more about the new broadpeak.io SaaS platform and the value it brings to customers.

Thank you for joining us in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2021. We hope you are enjoying all of the educational content and big announcements. If you missed anything from our Global Partner Summit or just want to recap, we have rounded up the most relevant launches, program updates, and educational content available for the AWS Partner community. Reminder that virtual options for re:Invent breakout sessions will be available December 6-10.

What does it take to build and run a successful SaaS business on AWS? This is a question the AWS SaaS Factory team gets often during our conversations with AWS Partners and customers who are moving to SaaS. While there is no single formula, we have been observing some common patterns and strategies that help organizations maximize SaaS success. In a recent webinar series, AWS SaaS Factory demystified some of the common patterns and strategies with AWS Partners Druva, NetWise, Stripe, Crowdstike, and Snowflake.

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.

As multi-tenant SaaS providers look to leverage machine learning services, they must consider how they’ll protect the data that flows in and out of these services from different tenants. Learn how tenant isolation of machine learning services can be achieved using AWS IAM, and how the integration between IAM, Amazon SageMaker, and many other AWS services provide developers with a rich set of mechanisms that can be applied to realize tenant isolation goals.

MariaDB offers a single unified analytical and transactional cloud database that can auto scale without the costly tradeoffs. SkySQL is a database as a service (DBaaS) solution on AWS that makes it easy for customers to start using MariaDB Enterprise in the cloud. It eliminates the need to pre-provision expensive hardware for testing, which often sits idle. In this post, the AWS SaaS Factory team speaks with Alexey Vorovich, VP of Engineering for SkySQL at MariaDB, about the recent SkySQL launch.

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.

Global leader in identity security CyberArk’s Identity Security Platform will be a native SaaS solution built on AWS that provides customers with a comprehensive set of capabilities to help secure all identities from one centralized location. Working closely with the AWS SaaS Factory team, CyberArk navigated technical and business decisions to build and launch the offering. We recently spoke with Assaf Miron, Sr. Product Manager at CyberArk, to learn more about the platform.