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How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards

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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 run rate business and has made up for an incredible 67% of Amazon’s operating revenue last quarter.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

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Part 2: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – Payroll with Gusto and QuickBooks Part 3: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – QuickBooks Bank Rules Part 4: How to Choose SaaS Billing Software This post – Part 1 – focuses on how to categorize your SaaS expenses properly by using QuickBooks or Xero, and what are the benefits of doing so.

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

Crafty CTO

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. The result: better security and no need for manual IP whitelisting.

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? ” And there can be some truth to that, right? .”

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Frontegg Announces $5M Seed Round for First of Its Kind SaaS-as-a-Service Platform Aimed at Accelerating Global SaaS Innovation

Frontegg

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. Before Kubernetes, DevOps teams were confined to assembling their own container orchestration and management solutions.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. They often superimpose it on the new company they’ve joined.