Right now we’re excited to announce the overall availability of SaaS Fast Launch, a brand new characteristic in AWS Market that makes it straightforward and safe to deploy SaaS merchandise.

Earlier than SaaS Fast Launch, configuring and launching third-party SaaS merchandise may very well be time-consuming and expensive, particularly in sure classes like safety and monitoring. Some merchandise require hours of engineering time to manually arrange permissions insurance policies and cloud infrastructure. Handbook multistep configuration processes additionally introduce dangers when consumers depend on unvetted deployment templates and directions from third-party assets.

SaaS Fast Launch helps consumers make the deployment course of straightforward, quick, and safe by providing step-by-step directions and useful resource deployment utilizing preconfigured AWS CloudFormation templates. The software program vendor and AWS validate these templates to make sure that the configuration adheres to the newest AWS safety requirements.

Getting began with SaaS Fast Launch
It’s straightforward to seek out which SaaS merchandise have Fast Launch enabled if you find yourself searching in AWS Market. Merchandise which have this characteristic configured have a Fast Launch tag of their description.

After finishing the acquisition course of for a Fast Launch–enabled product, you will notice a button to arrange your account. That button will take you to the Configure and launch web page, the place you’ll be able to full the registration to arrange your SaaS account, deploy any required AWS assets, and launch the SaaS product.

Step one ensures that your account has the required AWS permissions to configure the software program.

The second step includes configuring the seller account, both to sign up to an present account or to create a brand new account on the seller web site. After signing in, the seller web site might move important keys and parameters which might be wanted within the subsequent step to configure the combination.

The third step permits you to configure the software program and AWS integration. On this step, the seller offers a number of CloudFormation templates that provision the required AWS assets to configure and use the product.

The ultimate step is to launch the software program as soon as all the things is configured.

Availability
Sellers can allow this characteristic of their SaaS product. If you’re a vendor and wish to discover ways to set this up in your product, test the Vendor Information for detailed directions.

To be taught extra about SaaS in AWS Market, go to the service web page and view all of the out there SaaS merchandise at the moment in AWS Market.

— Marcia