Author: Bill Tarr

Discover how CleanSlate Technology Group helped Varsity Yearbooks transform their traditional yearbook business into a modern SaaS solution, accelerating feature delivery and boosting market share. Learn how this AWS SaaS Competency Partner leveraged AWS services to enable digital transformation in the educational services industry.

By Jimmy Dahlqvist, APN Ambassador, Sr. Solutions Architect – Sigma Technology Cloud By Leszek Ucinski, Cloud Engineer – Sigma Technology Cloud By Bill Tarr, Principal Solutions Architect – AWS SaaS Factory By Babak Parvizi, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS SaaS Factory Sigma Technology For software providers with legacy applications, modernization to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) […]

By Lenley Hensarling, Chief Product Officer – Aerospike By Akshay Patel, Senior Practice Lead, SaaS Partners – AWS SaaS Factory By Anthony McClure, Senior Partner Solutions Architect – AWS SaaS Factory By Bill Tarr, Principal Solutions Architect – AWS SaaS Factory Aerospike Real-time, high-performance workloads demand low-latency databases that can scale to meet the most […]

Explore how LenelS2, a Carrier company, transformed its existing OnGuard thick-client application into a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution on AWS utilizing the multi-session feature of Amazon AppStream 2.0. With this approach, LenelS2 successfully streamed the OnGuard desktop application to users via the internet without the need to redesign the core application.

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.

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.

Many SaaS organizations leverage AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to define a series of policies and roles that can be used to ensure tenants are not allowed to cross tenant boundaries when accessing resources. To make this work, you have to create separate policies for each tenant which can create an explosion of tenant policies that push the account limits of IAM. Learn how dynamic policy generation creates a more scalable and manageable isolation experience.