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

Crafty CTO

Why invest precious time on such a limited solution? Bigger Picture: Other Needs When I broadened my thinking, I quickly realized we had already implemented two other one-off remote access solutions: To enable SQL GUI tool access to the database, we set up bastion servers on our staging and production VPCs. do you mean, sir?

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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

CloudGeometry

Feature value: a function of time investment of users and customers The set of problems that your SaaS solves won’t survive long in the digital age if all it does is cut prices. Cost to serve a customer-facing feature is money that comes out of your pocket, and goes straight into the cloud provider’s pocket. More on that below.

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

We believe that AI startups who 1) build for enterprises’ AI-centric strategic initiatives while anticipating their pain points, and 2) move from a services-heavy approach to building scalable products will capture this new wave of investment and carve out significant market share. Measuring ROI is still an art and a science.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

Security is one of the main reasons why many businesses, especially small and medium businesses hold themselves back from taking advantage of powerful cloud technologies. Virtualization. This means that if someone hacks a single server, it puts many virtual machines or data of many customers at risk. Cloud Standards.