SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

Another 5%-7% go to core infrastructure costs (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, etc). Typically support consumes about perhaps 5%-7% of your revenue at scale (excluding customer success) in most SaaS models. It could be more or less, but that’s a rough way to think about it. So at $100m in ARR, you might be spending $5m-$7m on your support team.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Second, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all grew nicely, and are still growing like a weed — but the growth rate slowed. AWS and Microsoft Azure all reported more customers scrutinizing spend and working to manage their bills more carefully. But it wasn’t all roses this week in the industry leaders. Perhaps as it should be.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

So follow AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Let’s look a whole level up to the real canaries-in-the-coalmine: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. And Gartner is still predicted SaaS purchase rates will accelerate in 2023 : AWS, Azure and Google Cloud say Yes. So much going on in economy right now, from inflation to interest rates.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2023

A few of us are seeing no macro impacts, but probably the biggest tell are Cloud platform giants — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. So there’s no doubt things are a bit harder for everyone in SaaS and Cloud right now. All are still growing at very strong rates. But they are still growing. SaaS spend is still growing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) In fact, In fact, Gartner sees overall global software spend growing faster in 2024 than 2023, a very health +13.8% — and crossing $1 Trillion in total spend for the first time! But it’s not that simple.

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Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 253

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Shopify , Datadog, Crowdstrike , Google Cloud-Azure-AWS, Snowflake , etc. But many will find 2024, those stretches have stretched as far as they can. At the end of the day, 2024 may well be a year of Divergent Headlines. SaaS and Cloud growth overall will remain strong. may well put up not just strong numbers, but even stronger than 2023.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2022

At the same time, the leaders in Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) are growing a stunning 40%. And the number of public SaaS and Cloud decacorns has fallen from 50 to 17. This puts a lot of pressure on all the private unicorns out there: We did a deeper dive on decacorns here.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2021

Some well-known providers of SSO include Google Cloud Identity for companies using GSuite, Azure Active Directory for companies using Office 365, and Okta if you’re a larger company with more complex needs. . Blog post sponsored by Secureframe. For password management, 1Password and LastPass are popular options.

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Enterprise Software Review Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 194

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Again, epic growth but a material slowing from what AWS cited as “economic headwinds” Still — Google Cloud didn’t see a slowing of growth, and Azure’s growth rate barely budged. Azure (Microsoft): In the $50's billion run rate (estimate) growing 42% YoY (last Q grew 46%).

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. And if so, maybe that’s Digital Ocean. If you haven’t heard of Digital Ocean, ask your developer. Growth has slowed the past year, but profitability? It’s gotten crazy good. Or at least.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

But are AWS, Azure and Google Cloud just too big for us to learn from? Google Cloud continues its march upmarket, competing with Azure. AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud is one of the greatest case studies of all time. Do they “count” like the scrappy start-ups in SaaS that have now become decacorns? million customers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2022

Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitialOcean doesn’t want to take AWS, Azure and Google on in the enterprise and doesn’t really try. So DigitalOcean is the quiet Cloud platform that keeps on growing.

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Azure AWS SMB Cloud 202

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2023

Microsoft also reported strong growth overall and for Azure and Cloud especially. What a visceral comparison to Salesforce, which has seen a dramatic slowdown in enterprise growth. But ServiceNow? None really. Not for now, at least. The impacts of today’s shifts in the economy are … well, they’re uneven. Some are hurting.

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IT World

JULY 7, 2022

Sarah Bird, the principal group product manager for Microsoft's Azure AI, summed up the pullback last month in a Microsoft blog. (The discriminatory argument plays a role, though, due to the assumptions Microsoft developers made when crafting these apps.) Let’s start with what Microsoft did and said.

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Azure Technical Review AI Technology 110

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Secureframe helps companies get enterprise ready by streamlining SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS and HIPAA compliance.

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Payments Payment Services GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payment Solutions 214

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And while AWS’s growth is down a bit, it’s still at epic levels, Azure isn’t even really down, and Google Cloud is growing faster than ever. So we’ve talked about it often here at SaaStr, but things are just so … odd right now in SaaS. The best are still growing, if not faster than ever, then still close to it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Currently, we offer Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana, and M3 in more than 90 regions around the world on AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, and UpCloud cloud platforms. Zip provides one place for any employee to initiate a purchase or vendor request.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payments SaaS Payments 194

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The platform automates the provisioning of your application to the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), integrating cloud ops, DevOps, and security/compliance with 24×7 monitoring and support. DuploCloud offers an end-to-end DevOps software platform for dev teams that don’t have dedicated DevOps engineers and augments those that do.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS compliance 191

SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Secureframe helps companies get enterprise ready by streamlining SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS and HIPAA compliance.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 183

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Azure and Google Cloud also saw growth begin to slow. It’s hard to make any firm predictions at all right now. But when two of the blue chips in Cloud and SaaS say darker clouds may be coming … it’s worth paying close attention. Even Shopify isn’t providing guidance going forward. It could just be a bump.

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AWS Azure Cloud SaaS 291

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Secureframe helps companies get enterprise ready by streamlining SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and HIPAA compliance.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 209

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 209

Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of cloud computing, exploring recent trends and developments. Serverless platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, automatically scale resources based on demand, providing agility and cost optimization.

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multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Cloud CTO Hire 52

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

Data warehouse – Microsoft Azure Data warehouses are large repositories consolidating data from multiple channels. Microsoft Azure is one of the best options on the marketplace, combining dozens of different cloud computing services to offer a seamless way to manage customer data – and make data-led decisions.

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Azure Government Marketplace as a Service Data 83

SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. And what you can see here from the Bessemer Cloud index is that Forward Revenue Multiples are at their lowest in 3+ years: And yet … even with a multiple crash since Peak Covid, times are still really good in SaaS.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I also want to mention – I use this blog as somewhat of a personal journal. In the short term, enjoy the ride as the chase continues 😊 Kind of related to all of this - we now have seen the Q4’s from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

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Nimble - Sales

APRIL 16, 2019

SherWeb is enabling its 5,000 reseller partners globally to rapidly build their digital transformation practice and adopt a modern go-to-market strategy using Nimble CRM as The Simple CRM for Office 365 and gateway to Azure and […].

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Azure Cloud Strategy Marketing 92

SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2021

In my 148 public SaaS companies (including most of the categories of this list but not AWS, Azure, GCP) the aggregate revenue is $185B. No matter what, the wave of enterprise spending that fueled 100 SaaS and Cloud unicorns is just getting bigger and strong. This is your time, folks. Go make it happen.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS SaaS 155

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Azure’s marketplace has over 4 million monthly visitors. And a lot of this depends on your go to market, but we are selling jointly with the AWS and the Azure, et cetera sellers too. As a result of this, marketplaces have exploded in growth, and here’s some facts and figures. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5

Scale 191

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 191

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2019

Microsoft Azure sales grew at 76% year over year in its most recent quarter. The implementation sounds overly complicated, but still, a unique and compelling incentive to run some of your app on Azure. Bridgepoint to Take Control of Kyriba, Deal Values Cash-Management Firm at $1.2 A big jump from a $350m valuation in 2017.

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Cloud Azure Scale Software Engineering 132

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve into the five keys to automating usage-based billing for MSPs , with a particular focus on the vital role of data integration. Cloud Service Providers: Integrate data from popular cloud providers like AWS , Azure, or Google Cloud to track resource consumption and costs.

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Payment Features Management Azure AWS 52

SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2021

DigitalOcean is growing more slowly than its mega competitors Azure, AWS, etc. . $4B BigCommerce is growing more slowly than its $140B bigger rival, Shopify. That’s a big, big gap. But BigCommerce is still worth a very impressive $4B. More here. #2. But it’s still worth billions, in a very large market. #3.

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Azure Headcount AWS Education 199

SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

Historically, Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure help with the sporadic needs of renting a GPU for a few hours for training vs. long-term use, which would cost thousands of dollars. If it is a small startup, it may just be a single GPU, or it’s bigger with a cluster of GPUs where you need infrastructure management.

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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 201

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The role of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming increasingly important. “45% Tackle.io’s 2021 state of cloud marketplaces report highlighted a similarly dramatic shift. In a 2020 survey, 22% purchased software through a cloud marketplace versus 60% in 2021.

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Software Review Software Azure Cloud 189

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Here are some notable examples: Cloud Computing Major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling businesses to access computing resources based on their actual usage. This approach has transformed the way companies manage their IT infrastructure.

Technology 52

Technology Pricing Payment Features Subscription 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What’s evolved over the years and is driven by hyper-scalers like Google Azure, AWS, Twilio, and Stripe is the consumption-based model. There are still some complexities around SaaS-based approaches. So, it’s more customer-friendly, but it also has its pros and cons. This is MongoDB’s approach.

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Compensation Sales Azure AWS 159

IT World

JULY 31, 2019

Cisco seeks to enhance container deployment with a service to let enterprise customers run containerized applications across both Cisco-based on-premises environments and in the Microsoft Azure cloud. To read this article in full, please click here

Azure 12

Azure Cloud Enterprise Management 12

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Develop – to break down the roadmap into prioritized tasks for development teams Integrations with development (Azure, Jira, Github), communication (Slack, Teams), CRM (Salesforce, Zendesk), project management (Trello, Asana), knowledge management (Confluence), and workspace tools (Google, Microsoft) Pricing Aha!

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Software Review Software Management Azure 82