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Search at Intercom: Building our Elasticsearch cloud on AWS

Intercom, Inc.

For this reason, we chose to run exclusively on AWS and wherever possible, we make use of battle-tested AWS services, be it RDS Aurora for our relational databases, the Simple Queue Service (SQS) for our async workers or ElastiCache for our caching layer. SSM executes the commands using an on-instance daemon agent called AWS SSM Agent.

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Pitchbook & IVP: Top Tier SaaS Companies Usually Raise at 15x ARR. It Was 114x in 2021.

SaaStr

So there are a lot of rough and arm chair metrics for fundraising in SaaS in terms of valuations. In 2018-2019, it grew then a bit, and for very top SaaS companies, 20x ARR wasn’t uncommon for Series A and later rounds. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. And then things just went crazy. It Was 114x in 2021.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Canva at Almost $2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Growing Almost 50% as Approaches $2B in ARR The exact growth rate is based on an The Information report from a few weeks ago, and it seems about right looking at their published metrics. In 2019, they had 500 employees. #4. That’s awfully impressive. Importantly, growth has accelerated this year.

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The Week In Cloud: March 24, 2019

SaaStr

Alibaba is their AWS (or becoming it): The Cloud is better. Zoom is Growing at A Rate, And With Metrics, As We’ve Rarely Seen Before. Another Grows in France: The post The Week In Cloud: March 24, 2019 appeared first on SaaStr. Clippy was AI before AI: China is a whole different world for SaaS. It is even cheaper.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Xero. As It Crosses $650m in ARR.

SaaStr

This is a critical metric. Expanding into new markets is never cheap, and while Xero is very efficient overall, it’s cost to acquire a customer went up from $376 in 2018 to $397 in 2019. Gross margins have grown to best-of-breed at 83%, after a migration to AWS and more automation in customer support. and LTV is $2,398.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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