The AWS migration checklist only works if the cloud account and DNS sit under the company from day one. Founders get stuck when the prototype lives in a personal account, secrets are in .env files committed once, and nobody has practiced a restore.
If I were sequencing the ten steps, I would put these first: separate staging from production, infrastructure you can recreate, CI that blocks bad merges, monitored deploys with a rollback path, and backups you have actually restored once. Kubernetes and multi-region can wait until those are boring.
Ascendra Ventures regularly takes that AWS production slice as a fixed-scope DevOps problem for teams that already have an app but no safe ship path. Useful companion to the steps in this post.
The AWS migration checklist only works if the cloud account and DNS sit under the company from day one. Founders get stuck when the prototype lives in a personal account, secrets are in .env files committed once, and nobody has practiced a restore.
If I were sequencing the ten steps, I would put these first: separate staging from production, infrastructure you can recreate, CI that blocks bad merges, monitored deploys with a rollback path, and backups you have actually restored once. Kubernetes and multi-region can wait until those are boring.
Ascendra Ventures regularly takes that AWS production slice as a fixed-scope DevOps problem for teams that already have an app but no safe ship path. Useful companion to the steps in this post.