AWS SaaS Factory Program

If you haven’t already registered your company with the APN, join at no cost by creating your AWS Partner Central Account.

Review the AWS SaaS Journey Map to assess your organization’s readiness and view available resources to accelerate the journey.

• Leverage the Forrester study, The ISV Business Case for Building SaaS on AWS, to analyze your business opportunity and the potential financial impact of developing a SaaS product

• Understand the dynamics of the SaaS business model and assess your organization’s current state with the following resources:

  • SaaS Business Fundamentals learning module

  • SaaS Business Transformation learning

  • Journey to SaaS webinar series on-demand

  • Journey to SaaS Framework

• Evaluate the technical trade-offs to move to a SaaS delivery model and leverage resources to create the best alignment between your domain, market, strategic, and customer needs:

  • Architecting Next Generation SaaS Applications on AWS

  • SaaS Enablement Framework

• For those establishing a SaaS consulting and technical practice, start with the APN Navigate SaaS Enablement track to develop expertise in designing and implementing end-to-end solutions architecture on AWS

• Get inspired with partner success stories on how others have been successful in driving SaaS transformation

Start planning and building your SaaS solution with these prescriptive resources.

• Access AWS SaaS Boost, an open source ready-to-use reference environment that enables ISVs to jump-start your move to SaaS 

• Use the AWS Well-Architected SaaS Lens to build and accelerate delivery of your SaaS solutions leveraging AWS best practices and prescriptive guidance from AWS SaaS experts
  

• Leverage sample solutions that accelerate your path to SaaS best practices such as SaaS Quick Starts

• Access end-to-end narratives that provide an in-depth look at building SaaS on different AWS services:

  • Deconstructing SaaS: A Deep Dive into Building Multi-Tenant Solutions on AWS

  • Serverless SaaS Deep Dive: Building Serverless SaaS on AWS

  • SaaS Reference Architectures: A Review of Real World Patterns and Strategies

• Get specific guidance on approaches to migrate existing single-tenant systems to a multi-tenant SaaS model with these resources:

  • SaaS Storage Strategies

  • SaaS Tenant Isolation

  • SaaS Migration Real-world Patterns and Strategies

• Get help from the AWS SaaS Competency Partners that have deep experience helping organizations design and build SaaS and cloud-native solutions on AWS

Continue to follow AWS SaaS Factory best practices to further optimize your business model and technical architecture.

• Access a broad range of AWS Partner Programs and resources to grow your business such as:

  • AWS Partner Solutions Finder (PSF) to help you generate customer demand

  • AWS Partner Marketing Central for go-to-market assets

  • APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Program to collaborate with AWS Sales teams and drive successful customer engagements

  • APN Funding resources to support POC and migration opportunities including cash reimbursement and AWS promotional credits

• Check the Forrester New Wave: SaaS Marketplaces Report to understand the SaaS cloud marketplaces landscape and emerging industry trends

• Deliver your solution to end customers as a SaaS offering through AWS Marketplace