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AWS: 2023 Growth May Be Just 6%

SaaStr

cons is closer to 16% growth — Jordan Novet (@jordannovet) April 13, 2023 So Amazon came out with its latest annual shareholder letter and it was even more cautious on AWS growth than I was expected. AWS said they weren’t going to push folks to sign punitivate contracts, or block downgrades, etc. Lower than I predicted.

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How our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We are building for the long term – that means ensuring reliability by default, and the ability to accommodate massive scale as we grow. . As these existing customers have grown, and we’ve welcomed bigger and bigger customers, we’ve always focused on saying yes to scale. . We’re growing alongside our customers. Can Intercom do that?

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Datadog, ZoomInfo, Atlassian, AWS: Epic Growth — But Some Real Headwinds For The First Time

SaaStr

Atlassian noted a decline in Free to Paid conversion, but importantly, no decline in demand for their products: Amazon: We’re Seeing Strong But Slowing Growth at AWS to 28%, Albeit at a Stunning $82B Run Rate. Cloud Giants Update: AWS (Amazon): $82B run rate growing 28% YoY (last Q grew 33%). More on that here.

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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. This post is a version of a talk I gave at Elastic Community Conference recently.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: VMware, AWS and Databricks, GUIDEcx’s Co-Founder and VP of Sales, Workshop Wednesday, sessions from SaaStr APAC and more!

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SaaStr 644: Lessons Learned in Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies: From VMware, AWS and Databricks with Databricks SVP and GM Ed Lenta  2. Lessons Learned in Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies: From VMware, AWS and Databricks 2. When You Fall Out of Product-Market Fit Is Cold Calling Dead?

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Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds.

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This might not be as smart as it looks, as risk of scaling goes up. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. Yes, if you invested in Figma at a $10m pre and it sold for $2B instead of $20B to Adobe, you would have made a lot less money. But still plenty of money. Fourth, many growth and mid-stage VCs are fleeing to seed.

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Atlassian and AWS Say: “Maybe Worry a Little Bit”

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Amazon/AWS and Atlassian both had huge Q2’s. But both Atlassian and Amazon/AWS said … Maybe Not As Much Going Forward, Not Forever. The post Atlassian and AWS Say: “Maybe Worry a Little Bit” appeared first on SaaStr. IT budgets come from the cash generated from selling end products to people.

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