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

CloudGeometry

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Think beyond the cloud about what other resources you need to invest in making customers successful with your platform. “Feature-led discovery” or “product-led discovery” belongs on center stage as part of your monetization strategy.

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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.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

The three security layers that help prevent unauthorized access and safeguard valuable data include: Layer 0 aka IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is the primary layer on which everything else runs e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. VPC and VPN.