Category: SaaS

Uncover architectural best practices related to the recommendations in the AWS Well-Architected SaaS Lens framework for providing a frictionless tenant onboarding experience for a SaaS solution. The technology, tools, and realities of your SaaS environment will influence the specifics of your onboarding experience. With an efficient, automated onboarding mechanism, your solution will be able to provide a robust, repeatable onboarding flow that will benefit both customers (tenants) and your SaaS business.

Leveraging the AWs serverless quick start solution which details core integration requirements of AWS Marketplace, this post builds on that foundation and offers techniques for providing end-to-end AWS Marketplace-to-SaaS application integration, using the quick start as a starting point. Specifically, we’ll look at ways you can use AWS Marketplace to onboard new tenants into your SaaS application. We’ll also cover a few of strategies for leveraging the billing capabilities of AWS Marketplace to charge for usage.

In this post, delve into the process of detecting tenant activities within microservices spanning multiple AWS accounts. We provide insights into instrumenting AWS Lambda functions to include tenant information in tracing using ADOT and demonstrated how to establish a service map across several AWS accounts using Amazon CloudWatch. By leveraging AWS observability technology, SaaS providers can enhance operational efficiency and redirect their attention towards their desired development goals.

AWS experts break down how you can build a multi-tenant data ingestion and processing engine using AWS services. We examine each component of this data pipeline and examine some of the key considerations that can influence how you approach designing a SaaS multi-tenant data ingestion process. We also explore how multi-tenant streaming data can be ingested, transformed, and stored using AWS services while ensuring there are constructs built in to the pipeline to ensure secure processing of the data.

Explore how you can develop a cost-aware culture incorporating cost consideration in product development, and make informed decisions that align with both product goals and cost optimization objectives. As a SaaS leader, you can gain sustainable growth, maximize resource efficiency, and drive long-term financial success by developing a cost-aware culture. Start rethinking how you manage your cost and collaborate with AWS and the AWS Partner community to grow your SaaS business.

Delve into the transformative capabilities of Integrationworx in tackling a multitude of business hurdles through the strategic utilization of data. Their comprehensive array of offerings encompasses analytics, data integration, data management, training, and mentoring services. We’ll also explore the launch of their OverSight (OVS) solution, attributing a pivotal role to the AWS SaaS Factory team’s introduction of the Serverless SaaS reference architecture.

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.

Being able to support varying tenant configurations is a common requirement for SaaS providers. Learn how LaunchDarkly creates varied tenant experiences with entitlement flags and how to model entitlements as feature flags, targeted to tiers to give tenants access to specific features. We’ll also dive into ways you can use the LaunchDarkly feature for flagging deployments/releases, doing progressive rollouts, or running experimentation—all important release practices for SaaS providers.

The AWS SaaS Factory team has supported many AWS Partners in implementing Partner-Led Growth (PLG) tactics as part of their efforts to reduce customer acquisition cost, widen their funnel, and expand globally. If you’re thinking your SaaS business is not growing fast enough, PLG may be the key to unlock your product’s potential. Everyone from boards, investors, founders, C-suite executives, and even individual team members can benefit from understanding this game-changing strategy.

Learn how Drata’s suite of continuous automated compliance solutions can help accelerate SaaS providers’ journey to compliance frameworks. These solutions allow customers, such as SaaS providers, to monitor their diverse workload spread across multiple accounts, and customize the controls they need to apply for their chosen compliance framework, and any of the other 14+ frameworks to which Drata has mapped their controls.