Open-Source AWS SaaS Boost Now Available on GitHub
‘At NTT DATA we’ve had the opportunity to work with a pre-release version and found that it delivers on its promise to accelerate the transition to a SaaS model,’ says Matt Buchner, lead solution architect for the Plano, Tex.-based digital business and IT services provider. ‘This benefits our clients as they can now move more quickly to enable new digital business models that, in turn, allow them to meet their customers’ needs faster.’ By Donna Goodison May 12, 2021, 05:38 PM EDT
AWS SaaS Boost, an open-source tool for accelerating software-as-a-service (SaaS) migrations for independent software vendors (ISVs), is now publicly available on GitHub, the open-source code repository service.
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Amazon Web Services Inc. has open-sourced an internally-developed toolkit called SaaS Boost in a bid to help companies build software-as-a-service applications on its cloud platform faster.
AWS announced the availability of SaaS Boost on GitHub today. The project is the latest in a series of open-source tools the cloud giant has released to simplify customers’ software projects.
SaaS applications vary greatly in purpose and design, but they’re generally all built on the same basic building blocks. An application needs a system for onboarding users, integration with payment processing services to bill customers and monitoring mechanisms to detect technical issues. SaaS Boost provides these components, as well as others, in the form of pre-packaged modules that remove the need for companies to build everything from scratch.
AWS releases tool to open source that turns on-prem software into SaaS
AWS announced today that it’s releasing a tool called AWS SaaS Boost as open source distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool, which was first announced at the AWS re:Invent conference last year, is designed to help companies transform their on-prem software into cloud-based software as a service.
In the charter for the software, the company describes its mission this way: “Our mission is to create a community-driven suite of extensible building blocks for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) builders. Our goal is to foster an open environment for developing and sharing reusable code that accelerates the ability to deliver and operate multi-tenant SaaS solutions on AWS.”