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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned as we build full-stack SaaS across industries and user cases, it’s this: SaaS is a 3-sided balancing act: feature agility; compliance readiness; and return on infrastructure investment. And without a focus on features and customers, spending money on infrastructure alone won’t cut it.

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

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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. Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams Of course, not all customers want to pay for all the features.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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Leverage in SaaS architecture, like financing leverage from the capital markets, only works when you have a plan to keep the learned improvements delivering value. Well-Architected Framework scorecard : One of the great advantages AWS has over other cloud providers is what it learns from the Amazon consumer eCommerce business.