Author: Tod Golding

The move to a SaaS delivery model is often motivated by a fundamental need for greater agility and customer responsiveness. SaaS providers often succeed and thrive based on their ability to rapidly release new features without compromising the stability of their solutions. Achieving this level of agility starts with a commitment to building a robust DevOps pipeline that includes a rich collection of automated tests.

Storing data in a multitenant model is a key consideration for software as a service (SaaS) developers. The varying isolation needs of tenants, combined with the diverse landscape of AWS storage technologies, presents SaaS developers with a broad range of security, performance, and optimization considerations. To help you navigate the SaaS storage landscape, we’re excited to announce the […]

By Tod Golding, Principal Partner Solutions Architect, SaaS at AWS The software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model presents developers with a new landscape of technical, operational, and deployment considerations. Fully embracing the agility profile of SaaS often means re-thinking the fundamentals of how you approach your business. This is further complicated by the fact that there is […]

In my previous blog post in this series, I outlined some strategies for migrating applications to the software as a service (SaaS) model. That first post focused on minimally invasive approaches that allowed organizations to move existing solutions to AWS without altering the fundamentals of their application’s design or architecture. While limiting the moving parts […]

The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model is very compelling to many organizations. Agility, market responsiveness, shared infrastructure costs—they all represent an opportunity for businesses to transform their approach to how they build, operate, and monetize their products. The reality, however, is that these same organizations often have a significant investment in their existing […]

User management is one of those fundamental concepts that must be tackled by every software as a service (SaaS) provider. There are a handful of approaches that are commonly used to address this need. Some teams prefer to build out their own user management services while others rely on third-party identity providers to fill this […]

Designing robust software as a service (SaaS) solutions often requires developers to find new and creative strategies for optimizing their applications. Pouring all your customers into a shared, multi-tenant environment places an even higher premium on identifying opportunities to remove bottlenecks and improve each customer’s experience. The smallest flaw can have a compounding impact that […]

Editor’s note: For the latest information, visit the SaaS on AWS website. By Tod Golding, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Most software companies understand the importance of being customer focused. The adoption of agile software development practices was heavily influenced by the needs of software organizations to connect to, and focus on, the continually evolving […]

Editor’s note: For the latest information, visit the DynamoDB website. By Tod Golding, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS If you’re designing a true multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) solution, you’re likely to devote a significant amount of time to selecting a strategy for effectively partitioning your system’s tenant data. On Amazon Web Services (AWS), your partitioning […]