Category: Best Practices

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.

Over the years working with AWS Partners, we have learned that having a focused AWS practice helps partners be more successful in supporting our evolving mutual customer base. Learn how a dedicated AWS practice can be essential in getting the most out of your AWS Partner Network (APN) involvement, especially if your organization is on the Services Path. We’ll describe the five stages of a successful partner practice and offer insights into how to optimize your APN resources and benefits.

Learn how Rocketlane built its customer onboarding SaaS platform on AWS using the platform’s broad tools and services that helped the team innovate quickly, get support from programs such as AWS SaaS Factory, and go-to-market to reach customers through AWS Marketplace and AWS Activate for startups. In this Q&A with Deepak Balu, co-founder and CTO at Rocketlane, you’ll learn insights from Rocketlane’s journey that can help other organizations planning to adopt SaaS delivery model.

Whether you’re taking the first steps toward planning your software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey, or about to launch your first product, the new Journey to SaaS guide is designed to help drive your efforts to build, migrate, secure, and optimize SaaS solutions on AWS. Use this roadmap to identify which stage you’re in and review the corresponding actions, motivations, questions, pain points, and AWS SaaS Factory resources.

AWS offers programs and benefits that help partners of all sizes transform and improve their customer experience. Learn more about the tools, mechanisms, resources, and technical paths available to AWS Partners that can help them dive deeper into their AWS relationship, identify superpowers, and make the most of the AWS resources and programs available to support continued growth and success. Take advantage of APN programs to help you grow your business and reach your target customers.

One of the top challenges in operating a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution is measuring the resource consumption of individual tenants in order to understand their usage patterns, attribute costs, and more. The dynamic nature of SaaS environment and shifting needs makes it even more challenging. Explore how you can use the tenant resource consumption data you gathered to optimize your SaaS architecture, to improve operational footprint of SaaS environment and to drive business decisions.

As our world becomes increasingly tech-reliant, it’s never been a better time to learn in-demand digital skills. In fact, research from Gallup and AWS shows that, across 19 surveyed countries, the average worker with advanced digital skills in high-income countries earns 50% more than similar workers who don’t use digital skills. Explore four ways that AWS Partner Training and Certification provides AWS Partner employees with the fastest route to learning about the cloud.

AiDA Technologies launched new Fraud-Waste-Abuse detection solution, SMART-FRAUD, in partnership with AWS SaaS Factory. SMART-FRAUD uses AI to monitor health insurance claims to unearth cases of irregular behaviors such as claims fraud, over-charging, over-servicing, and other unusual behaviors. Learn how a successful SaaS transformation improves the synergy between the technical, business, and operational aspects of the teams, and overall cultural transformation of the organization.

Over the past couple of years, enterprises have increasingly started to adopt containers to increase IT agility. Often, Kubernetes is being used as the platform to power these efforts. Managing traditional Kubernetes clusters can be difficult and require a lot of time and know-how to set up and operate, especially at scale. Hear from AWS Ambassador Jarosław Grząbel, a cloud architect at SoftServe, how to run Kubernetes in an enterprise IT environment.

As with most industry segments, financial services are experiencing a shift towards the software-as-a-service business and delivery model. Explore how partnering with the AWS SaaS Factory team, Prometeia created a new platform as a SaaS solution on AWS. Prometeia is a leading provider of advisory services, tech solutions, and research insights. A unique combination of skills has made Prometeia a leading European company for risk and wealth management solutions, as well as services for institutional investors.