article thumbnail

Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. SMSM has one significant drawback: targeted at dev and devops folks, it is configured and run through the AWS command line interface.

article thumbnail

Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

But with cloud computing spend, it’s concentrated typically with one primary vendor. And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 Like I said, we run 100% of our platform on AWS, so the fit was great.

Scale 224
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

For purposes of your monetization strategy, the overwhelming majority of data that you need can be captured hourly and rolled up once a day, prior to export into graphs for exploration and analysis. “Real time” is not a technical requirement. More often than not, it’s a casual expression for “When can I have it?”

article thumbnail

Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

The idea behind the new architecture is split a SaaS app into code and the data. And the customer manages the data. Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud.

Cloud 196
article thumbnail

SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

Compared to traditional network systems, cloud computing systems are highly concentrated because of the virtualization technology, which allows single servers to hold data of multiple clients and many virtual machines. Cloud Standards. Data Location. Access-from-anywhere.