SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. DuploCloud offers an end-to-end DevOps software platform for dev teams that don’t have dedicated DevOps engineers and augments those that do. Prismatic is the integration platform for B2B software companies.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 246

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS Enterprise readiness 246

Clouded Judgement

MAY 3, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q1 + Early Look at Software Results Q1 earnings seasons has officially kicked off! We now have results from the three hypersclaers (AWS / Azure / GCP). Follow along to stay up to date!

Cost optimization & reporting 190

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Software Azure 190

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. This week Microsoft, Google/ Alphabet, & Amazon reported their third quarter figures. Google Cloud Platform. The kink downwards in the red line at Q-2 shows a sudden deceleration in AWS’ growth rate.

Cloud 227

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS 227

SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2021

Cloud software spending grew a stunning 23% in 2021, from $270 billion to $330 billion. In my 148 public SaaS companies (including most of the categories of this list but not AWS, Azure, GCP) the aggregate revenue is $185B. Just how fast is SaaS and Cloud growing? One thing we know — Fast. But that’s just the start.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 230

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS SaaS 230

SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2021

While there are many steps to getting your infrastructure setup ready for a SOC 2 audit, below are some simple settings you can start with, if you’re using AWS or GCP ( Secureframe also supports Azure). If you need a Pull Request Template, here is ours. 5 – Configure Your Infrastructure. Blog post sponsored by Secureframe.

Enterprise 272

Enterprise Software Review Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 272

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

Layer : application, platform, or infrastructure? 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). The PC increased GDP by 0.006%, according to NBER That alone should turn heads.

Generative AI 222

Generative AI AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 222

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Snowflake announced earnings yesterday, echoing the strength within software companies more broadly & underscoring the shift in enterprise buyer behavior to normal after three quarters of extensive cost cuts. And as a result, our salespeople are really not inclined to do much in GCP.”

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 181

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure Data Startup 181

Clouded Judgement

MAY 31, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Software Sentiment Software sentiment is incredibly low at the moment - and rightfully so. Nearly 70% of software companies who reported Q1 with an April quarter end guided Q2 below consensus!

Cloud 184

Cloud Software GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AI 184

Clouded Judgement

MAY 10, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Q1 Software Earnings Are… Not Good We’re about halfway through Q1 earnings season, and it’s not been pretty. Follow along to stay up to date! Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

Cloud 167

Cloud Software GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure 167

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Follow along to stay up to date! Even a DCF is riddled with long term assumptions.

Cloud 176

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Azure 176

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Back then the median software NTM rev multiple was ~6x. Then there’s software specific data points. Then there’s the broader software universe. Follow along to stay up to date! Today it’s ~5x.

Cloud 157

Cloud Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Overall, it wasn’t pretty… AWS grew 28% when expectations were 30-31%.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 4, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. ” These are two quotes about AWS on the Amazon earnings call. AWS grew 16% in Q1, but called out growth in April (first month of Q2) was 11%. Follow along to stay up to date! Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 21, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Next week we get all 3 hyperscalers reporting (AWS from Amazon, Azure from Microsoft, and GCP from Google). On AWS, in their Q4 earnings call they said AWS was growing “mid teens” in January (down from 20% in Q4).

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Datadog Gives Software the All Clear? This week software stocks shot up on Tuesday, largely a result of Datadog’s quarterly earnings. This doesn’t mean the rest of the software universe will follow suite. So what happened?

Cloud 190

Cloud Artificial Intelligence GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AI 190

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. Why move and why now?

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K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 52

Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. ” Then at AWS Summit they called out “Your data is your differentiator when it comes to Generative AI.”

Cloud 130

Cloud Azure AWS GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Behind the curtain, selling essentially the same software to different users and companies, again and again, relies on a distinct product architecture: secure multi-tenancy. The Single-Tenant architecture that dedicates specific software and infrastructure services to a single customer (in many ways similar to the world before cloud).

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS Construction 130

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. This is all important because on a relative basis, high growth software is expensive. So on a growth adjusted basis, high growth software is expensive. Follow along to stay up to date! On the surface, it wasn’t good.

Cloud 130

Cloud Trends Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

Every year Tackle surveys sellers and buyers at software companies across the spectrum—from less than $10M to over $1 billion in ARR, across multiple industries, and in roles like alliances/partnerships, sales, operations, product/development, finance, marketing, IT, and more.

Marketplace as a Service 77

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Iceberg leaned into the git functionality that software developers have become accustomed to. In this post, I’ll focus more on the data lake portion of the diagram above.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Audacix

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Building a culture of security in you software development teams is not an easy task, but its crucial if you want to minimise the chances of unforeseen cybersecurity disasters and unfortunate media appearances. Then, based on your responses, we will show you how to: Do regular software security activities to reduce your overall burden.

Software Development 52

Software Development GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Development Software 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

I had done some software consulting. It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. So we said, “Hey, why don’t we do that with enterprise software?”

Scale 151

Scale Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Technical Review 151

Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

Act FinOps Tools Cost Management Software Financial Modeling Tools EDI Systems Conclusion. Cost management software, financial modeling tools, and EDI systems are three such technologies. Examples of cost management software include in-platform cost optimization modules like GCP Billing and AWS Cost Explorer.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scaling 97

User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure offer infrastructure services that support backend development.

Azure 52

Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Construction 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

So our initial bet was performance could make a big difference. Of course, the software, we need to build something, which is very different in term of performance. We have to build everything from scratch in software to be able to have high availability. So the first version of the software had zero high availability at all.

Scale 164

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 164

Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. API vulnerability scanner API security testing ensures business data packets that move between two software applications and ip addresses are secure.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Cloud Software Engineering 52

Audacix

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But before we talk about tools, let me help you understand the nuances of SaaS security; its challenges and the software security best practices you can follow to protect cloud infrastructure and applications. If your SaaS is hosted on AWs, here are 47 AWS security controls you can put in place for free.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Cloud Outsourced Development Software Review 52

User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

In contrast, a data analyst at a company developing marketing automation software might focus on analyzing campaign performance and user engagement data to optimize marketing strategies. Userpilot is an all-in-one product platform with engagement features and powerful analytics capabilities. Looking into tools for data analysts?

Data 52

Data Azure Data Analysis Artificial Intelligence 52

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. A cloud server, like an AWS EC2 instance, is still a server. Not really.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity AWS Underperforming Technical Team Scale 52

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, technology companies like AWS, GCP, and Snowflake offer no contracts for customers interested in using their self-service option or beta-testing the solution. It is very common for companies to use multiple pricing models for different products, segments, and/or use cases. Ensure the primary Sales and Services tools (e.g.,

Pricing 52

Pricing Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Compensation 52

How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

This helps you cut down on costly upfront capital investments in hardware and software and save on recurring maintenance fees. Provide easy, fast, and cost-effective solutions to manage workload without having to deploy in-house hardware or software. IaaS services allow you to opt for only what you require and pay accordingly.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Table Of Contents Security testing tools are crucial in software development lifecycles because they empower you and your software teams to shift left and help your developers proactively detect and mitigate security weaknesses which can be a security threat if left unattended. AWS, Azure or GCP.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Mobile Cloud 40

Scytale

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Whether you’re using AWS, GCP, or MS Azure as your IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provider, hosting your data in the cloud doesnt automatically mean its secure. And trust me, in todays digital business environment, cloud-based compliance software is not something you can afford to skip.

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compliance Cloud Azure AWS 52