I love a good checklist.
Not because they’re trendy or because some productivity guru said so, but because in cloud engineering, they can be the difference between a smooth migration and a 3am zoom call. When you’re moving production workloads to AWS, there are so many steps that all need to happen in the right order. DNS. Databases. Firewall rules. The list can seem endless, at least until you write it all down, step by step.
The best cloud engineers I know all use checklists, especially for high-stakes work like migrations. Turn that cognitive load into words on the page! Build them, refine them, and trust them. Your future self will thank you.