SaaS Production Readiness
The demo works. Production breaks under real tenants, real traffic, or the first compliance questionnaire.
Production readiness review for SaaS on AWS: observability, tenant isolation, recovery paths, and compliance gaps, before customers or auditors find them first.
You probably need this if…
- Staging passes; production fails under real tenant load or edge cases
- On-call is whoever checks Slack first, no runbooks, no escalation path
- CloudWatch defaults exist but nobody reads the alarms
- A compliance or security questionnaire exposed gaps you didn't know about
- Rollback plan is redeploy and hope
What's actually going wrong
You optimized for shipping features, not for operating a product other people depend on. The gap isn't more code, it's the operational layer: health checks, failure modes, tenant isolation proofs, and recovery paths nobody has tested under pressure.
What I review or implement
- SLI/SLO definition and alarm routing that reaches a human who can act
- Multi-tenant isolation boundaries, data residency, and blast-radius per tenant
- Secrets management, rotation, and least-privilege IAM end-to-end
- Backup, restore, and disaster-recovery drills, not just policies on paper
- Deploy gates, smoke tests, and rollback mechanics that work when things fail
What you get
- Production readiness scorecard (pass/fail per category with evidence)
- Gap analysis mapped to your uptime or compliance target
- Prioritized remediation plan with effort and dependency order
- Hands-on implementation on the critical-path items
Proof
FedRAMP-aligned platform to production
Regulated SaaS client
A regulated SaaS product needed FedRAMP-aligned isolation, multi-tenant routing, and production GenAI, without a platform team the size of a big tech company. The readiness work covered GovCloud deployment, cross-partition Bedrock integration, cross-region DR, and defense-in-depth around LLM features before they reached customers.
- FedRAMP
- GovCloud deployment to production
- Bedrock
- GenAI shipped with injection defense
- Multi-env
- Modular platform with approval-gated prod
Request a readiness assessment
Describe your symptoms, not a job spec. I'll reply within 48 hours with an honest read on whether the problem is structural, operational, or something else entirely.