Cloud optimization for SaaS: Smarter growth, efficient operations

AWS serverless technologies feature a pay-for-use model that automatically scales from zero to peak demand so your cloud cost reduction starts immediately. You only pay for what you use, when you use it.

Limited spending visibility makes it hard to plan long-term. AWS cloud cost optimization tools give you real-time cloud spend anomaly detection, automated budget alerts, and predictive forecasting so you can clearly demonstrate ROI and invest in growth with confidence.

Managing multiple vendors across infrastructure, AI, and security creates overhead and slows development. AWS Marketplace gives you single-pane access to every tool your teams need—with unified billing and governance—so you spend less time managing vendors. 

Enterprise customers demand compliance before considering your solution. AWS gives you 143 compliance certifications built into the platform, covering governance, encryption, and security controls across every layer of your stack, so you can meet the most demanding requirements from day one without adding overhead or delaying your roadmap. 

AWS provides several programs and resources that help you build solutions on AWS. The AWS Training resource helps organizations build foundational knowledge on AWS.

After building foundational knowledge, customers can explore what it means to build a SaaS application. The AWS SaaS Factory helps AWS Partners at any stage create new products, migrate existing apps, and more.

To dive even deeper into reference architectures, AWS offers workshops for building Serverless and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS services. The source code for this SaaS offering is available on GitHub.
 

Yes. AWS has customers from different sizes of companies who build on AWS. We give you access to the cloud infrastructure and allows you to build secure, scalable, reliable, and resilient solutions. You also only pay for the services you use and do not have to invest in advance. AWS also makes it easier for you to sell your offerings. You can use AWS Marketplace to sell your solutions to millions of potential customers.

Visit Getting Started with AWS to learn the fundamentals and start building on AWS.
 

Finding the right pricing model highly depends on the individual SaaS offering. You can start by determining how much it costs for you to serve one tenant to get a lower bound for your pricing strategy. But don’t just forward the price to your customer. Instead, think of the value you provide to your customer and what this is worth to them. Does your offering make your customers more productive? Will they get updates more frequently and need fewer people to operate the software? You can include these factors in the pricing. 

A SaaS solution allows for different pricing models. Depending on the solution, a monthly subscription fee or a consumption based pricing model which can depend on the number of users of storage used could be suitable.
 

There are many tools to help you dive deep into the costs associated with your workload, such as Cost Explorer. AWS provides tools and resources to help you instrument your application and track the consumption of each of your tenants as they use your solution. This data can be used to apportion the AWS costs associated with this service to each tenant. 

The blog post Calculating Tenant Costs in SaaS Environments examines some of the strategies that you can use to capture and analyze tenant consumption data in multi-tenant environments.