Tag: SaaS on AWS

Software-as-a-service products have revolutionized private sector business operations in recent years, but despite the commercial sector’s demonstrated success with SaaS the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been slow to adopt this new delivery model. Learn how the Game Warden platform, built by Second Front Systems, a DoD-compliant DevSecOps platform as a service that accelerates software delivery onto DoD networks while adhering to stringent cybersecurity controls.

Being able to support varying tenant configurations is a common requirement for SaaS providers. Learn how LaunchDarkly creates varied tenant experiences with entitlement flags and how to model entitlements as feature flags, targeted to tiers to give tenants access to specific features. We’ll also dive into ways you can use the LaunchDarkly feature for flagging deployments/releases, doing progressive rollouts, or running experimentation—all important release practices for SaaS providers.

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.

Learn how Drata’s suite of continuous automated compliance solutions can help accelerate SaaS providers’ journey to compliance frameworks. These solutions allow customers, such as SaaS providers, to monitor their diverse workload spread across multiple accounts, and customize the controls they need to apply for their chosen compliance framework, and any of the other 14+ frameworks to which Drata has mapped their controls.

Explore how Katanemo’s powerful identity and fine-grained permissions system enables developers to effortlessly onboard customers, and build modern safety features for their SaaS applications on AWS. To accompany this blog, you can read additional posts and guides by Katanemo on how tenants can quickly set up SSO, and how developers can build ABAC authorization via Tags and meet compliance requirements via access logs APIs.

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.

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.

Tenant data isolation is a core SaaS concept, verifying that tenant resources remain in isolated environments. There are a number of ways to achieve this isolation, and one common approach is to use a token vending machine that issues tenant-scoped credentials at runtime. Explore an alternate approach to vending tokens that uses Amazon EKS and open-source HashiCorp Vault, simplifying access to the credentials and streamlining the overall management of tenant-scoped policies.

A tenant management service manages the tenant’s provisioning and lifecycle, and tenant management is usually one of the first services SaaS providers build for their SaaS control plane, as the tenant onboarding experience must be simple and fast. Learn how CyberArk built a serverless, simple, and scalable tenant management service. Its primary responsibility is adding new tenants and provisioning multiple CyberArk products to the tenants according to the customer’s subscription.