Tag: SaaS on AWS

Most SaaS solutions which undergo an AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) ingest, manage, and store sensitive data. The FTR is a review based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework and enables AWS Partners to identify and remediate risks in their solutions. Learn how to manage and secure sensitive data within their SaaS solutions with a focus on addressing requirements related to PII or PHI requirements in the Foundational Technical Review.

Amazon OpenSearch Service is frequently used by SaaS providers to address a broad range of use cases. The use of Amazon OpenSearch Service in a multi-tenant environment, however, introduces a collection of new considerations that will influence how you partition, isolate, deploy, and manage your solution. Explore the strategies and patterns that are used to address these common issues, and look at the specific models used to represent and isolate each tenant’s data with Amazon OpenSearch Service constructs.

A SaaS data platform may run in the account of an ISV or a dedicated account provided by the customer. Learn about the main AWS services SaaS data platforms can integrate with to provide customers with a seamless experience and take advantage of AWS services in order to accelerate their drive to meeting their business goals. Explore how those integrations can be built and examples of AWS ISV Partners who have successfully developed these integrations.

Adspert is an ad tech specialist that supports e-commerce companies in maximizing their profit on Amazon, eBay, Google and Bing by optimizing their pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns. The AWS SaaS Factory team spoke with Adspert to learn about the transformation their business went through in the last six months and the process of changing their SaaS packing and pricing changes, outcomes, impact on their product strategy, and business model.

Data security is a particularly important topic for multi-tenant SaaS applications that handle customers’ sensitive data. How to securely segregate tenant data and how to provide data access to customers will vary depending on the SaaS solution’s architecture and its requirements. This post explores how SaaS vendors can build secure, scalable, and cost-effective data exchange mechanisms using SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) with AWS managed services like AWS Transfer Family.

We are excited to highlight 133 AWS Partners that received new designations in July for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Armory recently launched its Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service solution which delivers the ability to declaratively automate your entire deployment process across multiple environments so that development teams can focus on writing great code rather than deploying it. Learn how the AWS SaaS Factory team supported Armory during the design of the solution through deep-dive workshops and sessions that helped accelerate the delivery of the SaaS product.

Building multi-tenant systems can represent a major effort for some teams. This post focuses on introducing strategies that allow developers to write their day-to-day code without having to think about how tenancy might influence their implementation. AWS Lambda Layers allow SaaS architects to centralize tenant-aware libraries without impacting the size or load-time of your application’s functions.

With support from AWS SaaS Factory, CHESA built and launched Acorn Cloud as a SaaS solution on AWS, allowing small and mid-size creative teams to create, edit, and deliver video content, while lowering the barrier of entry for access to collaboration tools as fully managed services. Hear from Lance Hukill, Chief Commercial Officer at CHESA, and about the value the new Acorn Cloud SaaS platform brings to customers.

AWS partners have asked us to do more to help them build analytics-driven applications, so we are excited to announce the launch of the ‘Powered by Amazon Redshift’ program. This program enables ISVs to build their applications using Amazon Redshift—our fully-managed cloud data warehouse service—and deliver fast, easy, and secure analytics at any scale available within their applications. With Amazon Redshift powering applications, ISVs can drive up to 3X price performance compared to any other cloud data warehouse.