Production Deployment Guide

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Track the essentials before putting an AWS workload in front of real users.

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Accounts and accessUse IAM Identity Center, MFA, least privilege, break-glass access, and separate environments.NetworkingPlace workloads and data stores in private subnets where appropriate; review routes, security groups, NACLs, and egress.Secrets and configurationKeep secrets in Secrets Manager or SSM Parameter Store, never in code or static environment files.Deployment rollbackUse blue/green, canary, aliases, deployment circuit breakers, or versioned artifacts with a tested rollback path.Monitoring and logsCreate CloudWatch dashboards, structured logs, tracing, metrics, and alarms tied to user-impacting symptoms.Backups and restoreEnable backups, point-in-time recovery, lifecycle policies, and run restore drills before launch.Scaling and quotasValidate autoscaling policies, concurrency limits, service quotas, throttling, and peak traffic behavior.Security controlsEnable CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, encryption, WAF where needed, and vulnerability scans.Cost controlsSet budgets, anomaly detection, tagging, lifecycle rules, and clear ownership for expensive services.Incident responseDocument runbooks, contacts, escalation paths, dashboards, rollback commands, and game-day tests.