Category: Best Practices

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.

Developing a sustainable and effective co-sell program with AWS demands a comprehensive understanding of your AWS collaboration objectives, and a keen focus on empowering your sales team to effectively work with AWS stakeholders. Sales teams that are well-informed about AWS’s culture, sales and GTM stakeholders, and sales processes can co-sell more efficiently, especially when equipped with resources such as pitch decks, call scripts, and case studies. Learn more about the “Co-Sell Development Framework.”

AWS customers are accelerating their digital transformation, simplifying procurement, and optimizing costs by using AWS Marketplace to discover, procure, provision, and manage third-party software, data, and services all in one place. Explore some of the reasons customers choose to finance AWS Marketplace purchases, how financing works, and how AWS Marketplace Customer Financing can help customers and AWS Partners get started with financing.

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.

Channel Partners are increasingly transacting through AWS Marketplace to deliver greater value to their customers, with benefits like simplified procurement and consolidated billing. As a result, preferred Channel Partners are experiencing benefits like accelerated deal closure, expanded reach, and optimized costs. Learn how AWS is investing in an enhanced AWS Marketplace experience, and how Channel Partners can build on AWS to expand their customer reach and accelerate sales.

Resiliency in the cloud is the ability to maintain availability and recover from software and operational disruption in a designated time frame. Following best practices from the AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Resilience Hub enables visibility for applications deployed by AWS CloudFormation, including cross-region and cross-account stacks. AWS Resilience Hub also supports defining an application AppRegistry, resource groups, Terraform, and applications using Amazon EKS.

Thousands of organizations rely on Salesforce to manage their customer relationships, though they may store related data in a variety of heterogeneous external systems. Organizations use AWS for the variety of data stores, and Amazon RDS makes it simple for users to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. Learn how to build an integration between Salesforce and Amazon RDS using the Salesforce Connect Adapter for GraphQL.

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.

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.