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

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Billing events and unit metrics The variable cost model of cloud platforms has forever changed how compute resources are bought and paid for and consumed. This is known as a unit metric. The power of well-architected cloud is in picking which of those ways does the most to keep you in business and growing.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

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SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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There’s no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture, so practical strategies of building such frameworks will vary. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is one such approach that helps adopt architectural best practices (whether or not you run on AWS) and adapt continuously.