Cloud Readiness Checklist For Startup Engineering Teams
A practical checklist to spot cost leaks, release risks, and infrastructure blind spots before they become production incidents.
Patryk Ciszewski | 2/22/2026 | 1 min read
Most cloud problems do not start as outages. They start as unclear ownership, missing runbooks, and manual release paths.
Use this checklist to assess your current setup:
- Do you know which services drive 80% of your cloud spend?
- Can your team deploy safely without a single gatekeeper?
- Are rollback steps documented and tested?
- Do alerts map to business impact, not just raw noise?
- Are access controls regularly reviewed?
If you answered "no" to more than one question, your infrastructure is probably carrying avoidable risk.
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