AWS Operations Checklist: Reduce Infrastructure Maintenance Time by Following Best Practices

150+ Expert-Verified Checks to Optimize Your AWS Environment and Lower Total Cost of Ownership
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Stop Treating AWS Operations as an Afterthought

Whether you're pre-launch or scaling in production, ad-hoc operations create technical debt that compounds daily. Without a standardized validation framework, your environment becomes fragile, unmanageable, and expensive.
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The "Unknown Unknowns" Risk

You don't know what you missed until it breaks. Critical configurations like backup retention, encryption, or logging often get overlooked during the rush to launch, creating silent time bombs.

Reactive Incident Management

Without runbooks or automated remediation, every alert triggers a manual investigation. This 'hero culture' leads to burnout and prevents the team from focusing on strategic engineering work.

Configuration Drift & Non-Compliance

Ad-hoc changes and lack of IaC enforcement result in environments that diverge over time. This makes auditing impossible and introduces security vulnerabilities that automated scans might miss.

Tribal Knowledge Dependency

Critical operational procedures live in the heads of a few key engineers. This single point of failure puts business continuity at risk and makes onboarding new team members inefficient.

Standardize Your Operational Readiness

Move from reactive to proactive operations. Our 150-point checklist provides the standardized framework and expert guidance needed to ensure production readiness and maintainable infrastructure.

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Frequently
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I'm already running on AWS. Is this checklist still useful?

Absolutely. While it's perfect for pre-launch validation, many teams use it as a 'health check' for existing environments. It acts as a gap analysis tool to uncover missed optimizations, security risks, and configuration drift that may have accumulated over time.

Do you help with implementing the recommendations?

Yes it is possible to implement the recommendations, but that is offered as a consulting engagement. If you need help with that, please contact us on our contact page.

How does this differ from AWS documentation, and who is it for?

We distilled a decade of hands-on operations work into the highest-impact checks, complete with context and implementation guidance. Instead of combing through thousands of AWS pages, you get a prioritized, practical playbook that works whether you're an AWS beginner or an experienced platform lead.

How often is the checklist updated, and can we tailor it?

We refresh the Notion database quarterly to track AWS best-practice changes. Because it's your workspace, you can clone, tag, or add company-specific tasks, filter by service, and build views that match your operating model.

Does it apply beyond production, and what if we only use a few AWS services?

Use it to harden dev, staging, and production alike. The checklist is organized by service, so you can focus on the sections that match your footprint today while keeping the rest ready as your usage grows.