Follow the workload through the stack.
Application servers, databases, background jobs and staging environments rarely need the same configuration. Identify the pressure in each layer and choose resources that serve its role.
Solutions / SaaS platforms
Infrastructure for the application your customers come back to. Plan the capacity, location and recovery path around the way your product works.
Discuss your product infrastructureFrom requirement to deployment
Application servers, databases, background jobs and staging environments rarely need the same configuration. Identify the pressure in each layer and choose resources that serve its role.
Consider where users connect, where data must be processed and how a new region will work with the existing stack. A nearby city alone does not guarantee application latency or resolve every data-transfer question.
Discuss growth, change windows and recovery before a configuration becomes urgent. The plan should cover how you deploy, how you restore and who owns each operational task.
The first conversation
Application architecture, customer permissions and software compliance remain part of your operating responsibilities unless expressly agreed otherwise.
Discuss your product infrastructureArchitecture, software stack, dataset and current bottlenecks.
Launch, migration or expansion; target regions and timing.
Access, recovery, data-processing and support responsibilities.