Category: Software

A key challenge SaaS providers face is understanding the cost profile of their environment and the customers within it. Measuring the cost of each tenant in the system, understanding cost-effectiveness of product features, and accurately metering the margin in a SaaS solution are examples of abilities that are critical for SaaS success. Learn why breaking down the cost to different unit metrics, customers, features, segments, and business units is a requirement for any modern SaaS business.

As multi-tenant SaaS providers look to leverage machine learning services, they must consider how they’ll protect the data that flows in and out of these services from different tenants. Learn how tenant isolation of machine learning services can be achieved using AWS IAM, and how the integration between IAM, Amazon SageMaker, and many other AWS services provide developers with a rich set of mechanisms that can be applied to realize tenant isolation goals.

The foundational approach for most companies adopting DevOps is to embrace an automation-first approach using a range of tools. Learn why implementing DevOps at scale can be a challenge, however, and why an environment-as-a-service (EaaS) approach using Quali Torque can overcome these challenges. Torque enables developers to access their application environments on demand while ensuring governance for the ITOps team.

MariaDB offers a single unified analytical and transactional cloud database that can auto scale without the costly tradeoffs. SkySQL is a database as a service (DBaaS) solution on AWS that makes it easy for customers to start using MariaDB Enterprise in the cloud. It eliminates the need to pre-provision expensive hardware for testing, which often sits idle. In this post, the AWS SaaS Factory team speaks with Alexey Vorovich, VP of Engineering for SkySQL at MariaDB, about the recent SkySQL launch.

Industrial organizations rely on high-value (core) machinery such as processing plant crushers and conveyors for their factory operations. In these same factories, there are secondary (non-core) assets such as motors, pumps, and generators located on the periphery of customer sites, but many are physically isolated, disconnected, and legacy in nature. Urban.io’s Asset Monitoring Data Subscription solution removes the technical challenges typically required to connect these hard-to-reach assets within factories.

Maximizing performance is a key area of focus for all architects. Achieving optimal performance, however, can be challenging in SaaS environments where multi-tenant workloads can make it difficult to efficiently profile and scale your environment. This post dives deep into the challenges, opportunities, and best practices of efficiently managing performance in multi-tenant SaaS environments on AWS. We’ll review these topics through the lens of an example multi-tenant search application.

Operational excellence is a key challenge for SaaS providers as it deals with the ability to run and monitor workloads effectively and to continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value. Implementing AWS best practices will enable you to handle and respond to continually shifting tenant workloads and usage patterns, and use data-driven insights to achieve desired business and technical outcomes.

Tagging helps organizations optimize expenses while improving the ROI of their cloud deployments and providing an effective means of allocating expenses to the correct cost centers. Tagbot is a simple tool that uses AI/ML to expose the tag coverage in your AWS environment. Built by TrackIt and available on AWS Marketplace, Tagbot addresses the business impact associated with how well-tagged your infrastructure is.

Global leader in identity security CyberArk’s Identity Security Platform will be a native SaaS solution built on AWS that provides customers with a comprehensive set of capabilities to help secure all identities from one centralized location. Working closely with the AWS SaaS Factory team, CyberArk navigated technical and business decisions to build and launch the offering. We recently spoke with Assaf Miron, Sr. Product Manager at CyberArk, to learn more about the platform.

The most valuable data for many companies is often the most sensitive and most regulated, such as electronic health records or financial data. Talend Data Fabric combines data integration, data integrity, and data governance in a single, unified platform that makes it easy to collect, transform, clean, govern, and share your data. Learn about Talend’s integration with AWS PrivateLink that allows customers to send data without using the public internet.