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

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This has consequences both for the cost of onboarding a customer, as well as the cost of maintaining the customer during the discovery period. 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.

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

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Monitoring technology such as Prometheus can do much of this for you, aggregating event and time-series data for actionable monitoring, metrics, trending and diagnostics. When tenant context is built in, from the outset of onboarding, you can evaluate users’ actions directly. There are limitless possibilities.

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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. to be leveraged across multiple tenants.