Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. ” Microsoft on Azure : “And I think last quarter, we said one, we are going to continue to have these cycles where people will build new workloads. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up).

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 315

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2022

At the same time, the leaders in Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) are growing a stunning 40%. Growing at a pace and scale like we’ve never seen before: That’s got to be the most visceral juxtaposition in my time in SaaS. This puts a lot of pressure on all the private unicorns out there: We did a deeper dive on decacorns here.

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Cloud Azure AWS Marketing 296

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

They typically give them just enough to see if it will work, and the startup grows and scales to the next stage. Shopify , Datadog, Crowdstrike , Google Cloud-Azure-AWS, Snowflake , etc. VC finance is designed to fund 18-24 months of runway. That’s how it works. VCs don’t give startups 10 years of capital.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2023

A few of us are seeing no macro impacts, but probably the biggest tell are Cloud platform giants — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. All are still growing at very strong rates. But all are growing more slowly than a year ago, and even more so than 2 years ago. But they are still growing. The Cloud is still growing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Growth in public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, etc.) In fact, In fact, Gartner sees overall global software spend growing faster in 2024 than 2023, a very health +13.8% — and crossing $1 Trillion in total spend for the first time! But it’s not that simple.

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Merchant Services Azure Software AWS 260

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. Azure’s marketplace has over 4 million monthly visitors. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 190

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

So we’ve had a lot of fun in our 5 Interesting Learnings profiling the top SaaS and Cloud companies at scale, from Slack to Zoom, from Shopify to Datadog, from Box to DropBox. But are AWS, Azure and Google Cloud just too big for us to learn from? Google Cloud continues its march upmarket, competing with Azure.

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Cloud Azure AWS Scale 212

Nimble - Sales

MAY 22, 2019

Nimble has migrated its market-leading SaaS CRM from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure. The migration enables Nimble to tap into Microsoft’s world-class Azure platform and partner ecosystem to scale.

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Azure Scale AWS Management 98

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cloud Giants Report Q2 We also got the Q2 quarters from AWS / Azure / GCP this week! ” Then Microsoft said this: “To meet the growing demand signal for our AI and Cloud products, we will scale our infrastructure investments with FY '25 capital expenditures expected to be higher than FY '24.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). It’s likely startups start at plug-ins & then move down with scale that affords more usage & more capital to invest.

Generative AI 205

Generative AI AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 205

SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2022

Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitialOcean doesn’t want to take AWS, Azure and Google on in the enterprise and doesn’t really try. So DigitalOcean is the quiet Cloud platform that keeps on growing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2022

ChurnZero lets your CS team manage and expand accounts at scale with proactive, personalized engagement that helps every customer succeed. Our best-in-class app tools, automation, dashboards and reporting help you drive strategic customer conversations, boost productivity and scale effectively.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 183

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Managed databases.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

What should founders know about the modern AI stack that Enterprises can scale on? Historically, Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure help with the sporadic needs of renting a GPU for a few hours for training vs. long-term use, which would cost thousands of dollars. They’ll need GPUs. What do you do instead?

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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 208

SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. And generating real cash flow at scale. #2. Customers are buying more than ever. The top SaaS and Cloud leaders are even accelerating at $1B in ARR, for goodness sakes!!

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. And that’s exactly why we created a playbook to help companies scale to $100+ million ARR with this model. Ready to scale to $100+ million ARR?

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Scale Pricing Scaling AWS 98

IT World

MAY 24, 2022

But I'm not here to talk about hyper-scale, public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or Google Cloud. I want to talk to you today about clouds. They're great, but for many, they're overkill.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Serverless platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, automatically scale resources based on demand, providing agility and cost optimization. Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration platform, has gained popularity for automating container deployment, scaling, and management.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Your tech stack not only defines the backbone of your business operations but also influences your ability to innovate, scale, and deliver exceptional value to your customers. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services.

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Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Construction 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). The scale is extraordinary.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. Given the speed and intensity of competition in this market, it’s essential to SaaS success at any scale — and at any point on the lifecycle of your SaaS product offering. Let’s take a closer look at what that means and how it works.

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Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS Construction 130

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

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Data Government Scale AWS 130

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. .” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! It’s probably better described as re-occurring vs recurring.

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AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 187

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Scale up (or down) fast Better Latency – Access points all around the world for better performance.

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ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Scale 97

SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Or Scale AI securing $1B. To some extent, it’s not clear. Maybe endless price increases,” Jason says. A lot of it is moving to versions of AI. How does a startup benefit from this? Dell fell 15% last week.

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CTO Hire AI Venture Capital Sales Hiring 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. It works out.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 192

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Cloud Service Providers: Integrate data from popular cloud providers like AWS , Azure, or Google Cloud to track resource consumption and costs. Automation , coupled with the ability to scale, ensures: Accurate and timely billing for a growing client base. Efficient management of new services and clients.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Management Azure AWS 52

BetterCloud

JANUARY 8, 2021

Achieving RBAC at scale. Achieving RBAC at scale. Scale becomes an additional challenge when managing user lifecycles across an entire digital workplace with tens or hundreds of SaaS apps. With Azure RBAC, access to resources is controlled by role assignments. In AWS, these attributes are called tags.

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Azure AWS Scale Technical Review 52

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

A cloud server, like an AWS EC2 instance, is still a server. The only difference is that it is sitting in AWS' datacentres, rather than in your office. Everything that you read here is relevant to you whether you host your own web applications or use a cloud platform like AWS. Not really.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity AWS Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

Windows Azure — Built on their Azure platform, this offering from Microsoft allows developers to use Windows through a cloud-based virtual desktop and develop applications from anywhere using Visual Studio Online. AWS — Amazon Web Services is perhaps the most used of the cloud infrastructure options.

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Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Scalability Startups and enterprises alike can scale their technology usage in alignment with their specific needs. Here are some notable examples: Cloud Computing Major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling businesses to access computing resources based on their actual usage.

Technology 52

Technology Pricing Payment Features Subscription 52

Neil Patel

APRIL 8, 2021

Instead, they pay for access to infrastructure through the cloud through companies like AWS, IBM, and Rackspace. Serverless computing automatically scales with your business, but you’ll give up some control. These businesses can use infrastructure as and when they need it, scaling as their business grows and shrinks.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Cloud Azure 119

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. What are the benefits of the SaaS model? Microsoft Dynamics 365.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 82

How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

They can scale up or down as required. Testing and Development: IaaS solutions make it quicker and more cost-effective for companies to set up and scale their testing and development environments. You can easily scale up or down as and when required. You can scale up or down according to your company’s needs.

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DevOps as a Service Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS 52

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law. If you’re scaling the parameters up, you have to scale the data with it. If you don’t have that, you’re not going to get the bang for the buck from scaling. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 110