SaaS Launch Checklist

A structured checklist for shipping a SaaS product to production with confidence. Every item exists because someone skipped it and regretted it.

Pre-Launch Checklist (28 Items)

Infrastructure (5 items)

• SSL/TLS -- Certificate installed, auto-renewal configured (Let's Encrypt / ACM), HSTS header present
• CDN -- Static assets served through CDN, cache-control headers set, origin shielding enabled
• Backup -- Database backup scheduled (daily minimum), tested restore procedure, off-site copy
• Monitoring -- Health check endpoint returns 200 when healthy and 503 when degraded, uptime monitor pings every 60s
• Alerting -- PagerDuty/Opsgenie configured, on-call rotation set, escalation policy defined (5 min ack SLA)

Security (5 items)