Category: Best Practices

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.

With AWS Marketplace, customers can leverage preferred Channel Partners to provide added value, such as professional services, implementation support, financing, and more. This post shares some of the benefits seen by AWS customers when using AWS Marketplace as their procurement vehicle, and how skilled Channel Partners are adding additional value to drive procurement success. The expertise of Channel Partners helps maximize cost savings, simplify procurement, and accelerate innovation through added value.

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.

The ability for AWS Partners to scale cloud transformation for their customers is essential to partners’ ability to retain and grow their business. This post aims to educate AWS Partners on using Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) as a mechanism to drive cloud transformation and increase time to value for AWS customers. The information presented here will enable AWS Partners to leverage the EBA methodology, and we’ll highlight best practices for rapid modernization through agile transformation.

The advent of automated infrastructure provisioning and cloud-based remote backup and recovery solutions has empowered organizations to embrace advanced data protection and backup strategies tailored for cloud-native workloads. Explore the architectural design and considerations customers should consider before adopting AWS Backup using private interface VPC endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink) to protect workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS.

Developing a co-sell program that supports your organization’s collaboration objectives with AWS involves identifying necessary activities and managing them to deliver results. The best practices outlined in this post are considered evergreen and have positively impacted AWS Partners who have prioritized their go-to-market strategy with AWS. To follow this guide, you must be a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and participate in the AWS ISV Accelerate Program.

Organizations running Oracle Database on vSphere environments are looking for migration paths for the database and the best path for them. In this post, explore database migration paths to AWS from on-premises vSphere environments and the benefit of integrating VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS Cloud Databases. We’ll also discuss how each migration path helps customers streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve overall business agility.

Kubernetes provides several autoscaling features that enable organizations to dynamically adjust their application resources in response to varying demands, but optimizing Kubernetes costs can be challenging. Learn how optimization tools like Karpenter and StormForge Optimize Live help organizations automate resource allocation, optimize performance, and reduce costs, thus making the process of cost optimization more accessible and efficient for anyone.

To help break down barriers and develop your cloud skills, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has created several methods to guide you on the correct learning journey, including learning plans, courses with different training styles, and a curated list of our most popular courses amongst AWS Partners. In this post, explore what training resonates with the thousands of partners already learning with AWS Partner Training and Certification.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps organizations design, build, and operate systems on AWS cloud environments. Wipro is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that has helped multiple SAP customers running their SAP applications on AWS to achieve agility, innovation at high speed, and improved resilience. This post highlights best practices and learnings from Well-Architected Framework Reviews conducted by Wipro using the SAP Lens.