SaaS / AWS
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a business with a recurring revenue stream for an on-demand service or application. SaaS has been legitimized by Salesforce, and analysts are expecting a wave of SaaS developments, especially in an economic downturn. The low-risk, pay-as-you-go model will give SaaS vendors a big advantage if budgets are slashed. Goldman Sachs: "The ability to quickly and easily turn on new applications with a significantly lower... cost of ownership makes SaaS an attractive offering... significantly expanding the market for software applications."
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest offering from Amazon in the leading edge field of Cloud Computing. Our technology is Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 depending on who you talk to. Either way, our service is being developed using the latest available web technologies for rapid development and deployment. The key architecture decision is to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the deployment / virtualization platform (SaaS and AWS go together like peanut butter and jelly). We utilize the following AWS services for our storage, servers, bandwidth usage, queuing, and payment processing:
- EC2
- S3
- SQS
- CloudFront
- FPS
AWS allows us to instantly roll out a SaaS service, without ANY investment in a data center or co-location facilities.AWSgives us a world-class infrastructure with guaranteed up-time and service levels. More importantly AWS helps us deliver a highly scalable architecture that deals with usage spikes (peak times), fast growth (instant server deployment), and a large subscriber base.
What does it mean to our clients? SaaS is an on-demand service platform, you pay for it on a low monthly basis, with no up-front payment, and no long-term commitments. AWS is a world-class infrastructure from Amazon, the largest web merchant in the world, with 99.9% service levels, for guaranteed performance and security.
