SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2023

First, there are tons of new and newer seed managers that are ready to go. They don’t have 20 broken unicorns to deal with, nor lots of mark down to manage. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. If … you are capital efficient. Second, top funds (including Sequoia this week) have brand-new Seed funds.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jamf has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new tools that let IT admins using Jamf Pro enroll virtual EC2 Macs when they are provisioned via the AWS portal. We know AWS is one of the world’s biggest cloud services firms — it has such a major presence that it is seen as a “hypervisor." This is news because?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Building a team of rockstar product managers and leaders is hard, but even harder is to scale the team by hiring and growing senior talent in global locations while maintaining a culture of innovation, impact, and integrity. Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends. And how about our product teams?

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IT World

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple’s growing status in enterprise IT expands just a little more with news that cross-platform device management company JumpCloud,now offers its service via Amazon’s AWS marketplace. Identity, platform agnosticism, and the future of IT.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. Compare that to AWS’ managed database, Aurora, which charges $0.0000002 per request. (I’m Database Cost per Transaction in $ Cost Multiple Relative to AWS AWS Aurora 0.0000002 1 Ethereum Peak 37 185m Ethereum Today 2.67

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Lack of modern cloud features and managed services.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 3, 2024

We now have results from the three hypersclaers (AWS / Azure / GCP). The most notable change in tone was Andy Jassy talking about AWS. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q1 + Early Look at Software Results Q1 earnings seasons has officially kicked off! ” Full quote below: “We're seeing a few trends right now.

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Software Azure 183

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2024

Lessons learned from scaling innovative products and go-to-market motions at AWS. 32:49 – Challenges faced and insights gained during Linda’s time at AWS. Why a modern go-to-market approach requires moving beyond legacy CRM systems. How Common Room unifies siloed data to enable a 360-degree view of the customer.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

AWS can’t support 20 partners equally. When partnering with big folks like Drata does with AWS, you have to bring business to them. Drata was one of three companies mentioned on stage by AWS’ Head of Partnerships because they did the most transactions on the marketplace than any other company. That’s a high value for AWS.

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Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Working backwards isn’t a silver bullet that guarantees you success on the scale of AWS.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Amazon is introducing its next-gen AWS Verified Access security technology. At its annual AWS re: Invent show , the company confirmed the tech will be made available to enterprises running Apple products thanks to partnerships with Jamf , JumpCloud , and other device management vendors in the space.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

CloudKeeper from TO THE NEW, is a cloud spend optimization solution that guarantees to cut down your AWS bills by 5-15%. With CloudKeeper, we have helped 200+ of our customers optimize their AWS spend with a guaranteed reduction in their AWS bills. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) And Gartner also reports CIOs overall have general change fatigue and are pushing out new projects to simplify change management. As compared to late 2020 and 2021, when change was the name of the game.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

AWS re:Invent : AWS re:Invent is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) annual conference, focused on cloud computing and SaaS-related services. The event brings together developers, architects, and IT professionals to explore the latest AWS developments.

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ChatGPT AWS SaaS CTO 237

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: It’s Now Year 2 of the Venture Downturn Clawbacks and Tracking-to-Cash: Two Sales Management Tools to Be Thoughtful With 8 Things That Are Just Harder in SaaS Now Tier 1 VC is Great. But More Money May Be Even Better.

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Scale AWS Scaling Enterprise 241

IT World

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Goldman Sachs, through a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has launched a financial data management and analytics service to help clients crunch data to extract business value. To read this article in full, please click here

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. Azure (excluding Azure AI) continued to decelerate, and while AWS did come in ahead of expectations, it wasn’t a blow out. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

I would pay each product provider in their own token: one for storage, compute, caching/CDN, email subscription management, etc. Paying five decentralized providers in five different tokens means managing several wallets and monitoring token prices to hedge expenses. It’s too much complexity for a simple static blog.

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Payment Solutions GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup Payment Features 257

IT World

APRIL 22, 2020

Google Cloud has announced that Anthos — the company’s software for deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads across multiple on-prem and cloud environments — now supports running workloads on rival cloud platform Amazon Web Services (AWS), with Microsoft Azure support still in preview for now.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2023

RevenueCat (where I was lucky enough to be the first investor) is the leading mobile subscription management API and literally processes more API calls a day than Stripe. We’re kicking off a new series on SaaStr on what top SaaS and Cloud leaders (CROs, CMOs, and CTOs) use in their tech stack. It’s the nature of mobile.

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New CTO CTO AWS Mobile 215

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

We maintain very close relationships with our primary cloud infrastructure vendor, Amazon Web Services (AWS), to continually jointly assess the robustness of our infrastructure platform and understand if there are opportunities to evolve and further strengthen our reliability. We manage risk and respond instantly when things go wrong.

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Software Review Technical Review Management Systems Review 118

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. That is not new.”

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IT World

AUGUST 27, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO—VMware has uncorked a variety of software products and services aimed at letting customers more quickly and securely build and manage hybrid-cloud environments. VMware used its VMworld customer event here to expand its cloud role to Dell/EMC and broadened its role with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 20, 2023

Get ready for 50+ speakers for the very first SaaStr APAC event in Singapore, including: APAC Update: State of the Cloud with Bessemer Venture Partners , Anant Vidur Puri, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners Lessons Learned in Scaling to $1B ARR: From VMware, AWS and Databricks with Databrick’s SVP and GM Ed Lenta The Secrets to Building (..)

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

We work exclusively with AWS as our cloud services provider and currently provide data hosting offerings in three different global regions – US, EU, and Australia – each architected across multiple availability zones for high availability. Our tooling allows for high availability. Intercom’s global infrastructure is built for internet scale.

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Scaling AWS Software Review Technical Review 252

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google Cloud Platform, on the other hand, is in a very different set that also competes with Microsoft, but AWS is considered their biggest competitor in the market. What they’re seeing with GenAI and Google Cloud is an opportunity to grab share from AWS. Right now, 70% of the GenAI startups are using Google Cloud.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

Split Sales Team Managing SMB Accounts Into 2 Teams, One on New Business and One on Upsell It’s interesting to see Okta do this a bit later in life than some, but it makes a ton of sense given the current macro environment. AWS alone generated $175m of contract value for Okta, growing 130%.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. Is Software Rebounding?

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Cloud Software Azure AWS 177

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2023

Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!! Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!! Ari Lee Bayme, Managing Director @ Sandfox Advisors See You There!! The post 55+ New Workshops and Braindates for 2023 SaaStr Annual appeared first on SaaStr.

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VP of Engineering AWS AI Engineering 231

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2022

They will manage their own servers to reduce the $3m annual AWS bill by 60%. A recent survey showed the typical company would halve its costs by managing its own servers. Reverting back to self-managed infrastructure might hold some appeal for companies focused on financial optimization rather than growth.

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IT World

DECEMBER 10, 2019

At its AWS re:Invent 2019 event, the company acknowledged that computing power can be more useful when it’s closer to home, announcing three new services for reducing latency, including a mini-cloud you can house in your own data center. Get the latest cloud computing insights by signing up for our newsletter. ]

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

DataBricks, whose business revolves around Spark operating in customer environments, has announced plans to acquire Mosaic, a vertically integrated model training & management system that functions on similar workloads. Five years ago, many startups defaulted to AWS for the generous credits, broad catalog, & rapid pace of innovation.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

ChurnZero lets your CS team manage and expand accounts at scale with proactive, personalized engagement that helps every customer succeed. Having experienced the pain of managing an ever-growing SaaS stack, we built a platform to help companies bring visibility and control of all their SaaS so they can focus on serving their customers.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. SaaStr 629: CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment in 2023 For Candidates and Hiring Managers With Flexport’s Ben Braverman   3. Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. A 6 Part Test to Help You Get It Right.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale AWS 207

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Aiven provides managed open source data technologies on all major clouds. Meanwhile, we do what we do best; manage cloud data infrastructure. With Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications. We enable customers to drive business results from open source that trigger true transformations.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payments SaaS Payments 226

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The GDC Expo showcases the latest game development tools and services from leading technology companies such as AWS, Epic, and Google. We handle every payment need from subscription management to tax collection, remittance and more so your business can go farther, faster. Schedule a demo now or at GDC 2024 in person!

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Merchant Services Development Payment Services SaaS Payments 133

IT World

APRIL 10, 2019

Cisco Cloud ACI for AWS lets customers manage and secure applications running in the data center or in Amazon Web Service cloud environments(Insider Story)

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