App Lifecycle Manager at a Glance

App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime)

Automated app lifecycle management at scale

Jump start your App (SaaS/API/Agent) journey using App Lifecycle Manager (SaaS Runtime). Model, deploy, monitor and optimize your Apps at scale. Quickly transform your Apps and services to be AI powered.

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Features

Design (the template)

App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) employs a structured, opinionated approach to modeling and abstracting your service architecture. This is a critical differentiator for operating SaaS at scale, as it establishes a single source of truth, simplifying management, and minimizing the risk of configuration drift across potentially thousands of tenant instances. By providing opinionated examples and Google Cloud best practice recommendation blueprints created using Application Design Center, App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) significantly accelerates your time-to-market for new services. These pre-built patterns jump-start common SaaS workflows, eliminating the need to build everything from scratch and enabling you to rapidly converge on a scalable solution. 

Deploy (the engine)

Automate the provisioning and orchestration of your applications (SaaS/API/agent) for consistent and reliable deployments. This ensures that your applications are deployed in a standardized manner across all tenants, reducing the risk of errors and inconsistencies.

Operate (the fleet)

App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) provides comprehensive service management tools to effectively control your App operations. You gain detailed visibility into tenant-specific resource usage and application performance, enabling proactive management, optimized resource allocation, and high service quality across all tenants. This includes the ability to efficiently roll out new releases and features, such as selectively deploying feature flags (for example, for promotional pricing) to specific tenant segments, as well as managing binary and configuration changes, and incorporating new components. For instance, you can enhance an inventory management SaaS with new AI capabilities like dynamic pricing optimization by rolling out an AI blueprint to selected retailers. App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) also allows you to manage infrastructure across tenants, track drift, observe rollout progress, monitor feature availability, and proactively address issues.

How It Works

App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) lets you store, host, manage, and monitor software as a service (SaaS) applications (Apps/API/Agents) on Google Cloud. App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) manages Terraform deployments at scale, allowing you to manage both your application and the infrastructure that it runs on.

Common Uses

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App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) at a glance
App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) at a glance
    Fast-track your app (SaaS/API/agent) journey

    Is your business ready to embrace the software as a service (SaaS) revolution for hosting an app (SaaS/API/agent) at scale? Discover how Google Cloud can fast-track your App journey. This session from Next 25 reveals how Google Cloud empowers you to scale your SaaS offerings, reduce time to market, and deliver exceptional customer experiences using a comprehensive toolbox with per-tenant controls, feature rollout management, and insightful monitoring.

    Watch the session

    App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) at a glance
    App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) at a glance

      Pricing

      How App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) pricing worksThere are no charges for using the App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) service. You only pay for the Google Cloud resources that you use as part of deploying and managing your SaaS.
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      App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime)

      Fully managed service to model, deploy, observe and optimize your Apps (SaaS/API/Agents) at scale

      Free

      App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) service is free

      How App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) pricing works

      There are no charges for using the App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) service. You only pay for the Google Cloud resources that you use as part of deploying and managing your SaaS.

      App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime)

      Description

      Fully managed service to model, deploy, observe and optimize your Apps (SaaS/API/Agents) at scale

      Price (USD)

      Free

      App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) service is free

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      App Lifecycle Manager (formerly SaaS Runtime) is free to use; you only pay for the Google Cloud resources. To estimate your monthly Google Cloud SaaS workload resource charges, click Estimate pricing below.

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