AWS Operations Checklist

The Ultimate AWS Operations Checklist: Moving towards Reliable and Efficient Infrastructure

Managing and maintaining AWS infrastructure can be challenging, especially when you’re not following best practices. As a result, your organization may face increased costs, security risks, and unnecessary time spent on operations.

The complexity of AWS services can make it difficult to ensure you’re utilizing the full potential of the cloud.

Therefore we’ve created a comprehensive AWS Operations Checklist that you can utilize to quickly verify if your AWS Resources are set up reliably and efficiently.

Are you or your team spending too much time operating your AWS Infrastructure?

Operating and maintaining your AWS infrastructure efficiently is crucial for your business’s success.

However, with the vast array of AWS services and their numerous configurations, it’s easy to miss essential best practices.

As a result, your infrastructure might not be optimised, causing unnecessary expenses, performance issues, and time-consuming management tasks.

The Costly Consequences of Neglecting the AWS Best Practices.

We understand the pain of dealing with mismanaged infrastructure. We’ve seen hundreds of cases where organizations failed to follow AWS best practices, leading to:

  • Increased operational costs due to inefficiencies and wasted resources
  • Time-consuming management tasks, taking your focus away from critical business objectives

When your AWS infrastructure isn’t set up according to best practices, it can hinder your organization’s growth and even lead to system failures.

Your developers and engineers may struggle to maintain and manage the infrastructure, taking their focus away from core business objectives.

To unlock the full potential of the AWS Cloud, you need an operations checklist that ensures your infrastructure is well-architected and efficient.

Introducing the AWS Operational Checklist: Your Key to a Well-Optimized Infrastructure

Our comprehensive AWS Operational Checklist is specifically designed to educate developers, engineers, and architects on ways to improve your AWS infrastructure. It’s based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, ensuring that you’re aligned with industry best practices and guidelines.

This checklist covers key AWS Services, such as EC2, VPC, and RDS, and focuses on performance efficiency and reliability. You’ll get a single overview of carefully selected best practices that worked successfully in the 9+ years that we’ve been migrating and assessing workloads on AWS Cloud.

Especially if you’re relatively new to Cloud fundamentals or only have experience running infrastructure on-premise. Then this checklist will save a lot of hours in finding out what best practices are applicable to your AWS Infrastructure. Also implementing these changes will mean that you can save serious money in the long run by lowering the cost to operate and maintain your AWS infrastructure.

Expert-ApprovedBased on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, our checklist ensures you’re following AWS recommendations and industry best practices.
Easy to FollowWith concise explanations and actionable tasks, our checklist is user-friendly, making it simple to implement best practices.
Stay UpdatedEach check includes a link to AWS source documentation, keeping you informed about the latest guidelines and updates.
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What’s in the AWS Operations Checklist?

In total there are over 150+ checks that are compressed into simple columns containing actionable implementation steps and the source AWS Documentation. This way you don’t have to spend hours figuring out the best practices yourself. We support over 15 AWS services, of which we picked based on popularity and usage for the average company that uses the AWS Cloud.

Here’s what’s included in the checklist.

Amazon EC2
Amazon RDS
Amazon VPC
Amazon EBS
Amazon ECS & EKS
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon Route 53
AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
Amazon Elasticache
AWS Lambda
Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
Amazon S3
Amazon EBS

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Frequently Asked Questions

To help you make an informed decision, we have compiled a list of frequently asked questions and their answers.

Our aim is to provide you with the information you need to feel confident before you buy the AWS Operations Checklist for your business.

Who is this AWS Operations Checklist for?

Professionals like Developers, Engineers, and Architects that are responsible for their applications and workloads hosted on AWS Cloud.

Who are you?

I’m a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer with 9+ years of experience building and migrating 100s of workloads to AWS Cloud. I’ve learned a setting up reliable and efficient infrastructures the hard way.

This checklist helps me to onboard new clients quicker when I’m doing an analysis of their current architecture. But I’ve found out that not only I can benefit from this knowledge, so, therefore I’ve decided to release this checklist to the public.

How will the AWS Operations Checklist help me save time and resources?

By following the AWS Operations Checklist, you can ensure your infrastructure is set up using best practices, leading to a more efficient and reliable environment that requires less time and effort to maintain.

Are there any prerequisites for using the AWS Operations Checklist?

Familiarity with AWS services and a basic understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework are helpful when using the AWS Operations Checklist, but no specific prerequisites are required.

Can I share the AWS Operations Checklist with my team members?

Yes, you can share the AWS Operations Checklist with your team members, ensuring everyone is on the same page when it comes to maintaining and improving your AWS infrastructure.

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