SaaS: More than just a business model
Bill Tarr has the most interesting job in the world. He and his team of SaaS Evangelists at the AWS SaaS Factory work with companies large and small to help them build SaaS on AWS.
In this conversation, we discuss the different ways technology and business interact when building SaaS - from cool technical options available only to SaaS companies to the importance of knowing the cost of a tenant. This hour is packed with advice for both the technical and the business side of building a viable SaaS.
Links mentioned in the show:
Prime Day team on observability: • AWS re:Invent 2023 - Surviving overlo...
Bill Tarr on SaaS Architecture Pitfalls: • AWS re:Invent 2023 - Surviving overlo...
WrapStream's architecture: • Building Streaming on S3
Alcion's zero cost multi-region architecture: • Cell Based Architecture for Early Sta...
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00:00 intro
00:40 What's AWS SaaS Factory
03:00 Aligning technology to the business
05:40 News from re:invent
08:51 Technical community for SaaS
09:40 SaaS on S3
11:40 SaaS First Mindset
12:57 Geographical agility
14:50 Can we go back to the data center?
18:06 SaaS best practices for startups
21:21 Do we still need all the nines?
27:11 Cost of a tenant
40:35 Staying on top of AWS
43:20 Best SaaS examples
47:45 Advice to SaaS developers