palaniappan p5 min
AWS DevOps & Platform Maturity Model (2026): A 4-Level Scorecard Anchored to Real Services
Generic DevOps maturity models score you on culture slides — this one maps L1–L4 to AWS gates you can verify: IaC in Git, GitOps or gated CD, ADOT on EKS, FIS with stop conditions, and cost-aware CI. A composite 85-engineer SaaS moved from L2 to L3 in one quarter by fixing the CI/GitOps boundary alone, cutting deploy-related incidents from ~6/month to 2.
