Cloud Health Scorecard for AWS & Azure
Score your cloud setup across monitoring, security, cost, resilience and DevOps maturity — then get practical next steps you can use straight away.
Most cloud problems do not appear suddenly. They build up quietly through missed alerts, weak recovery plans, rising costs, manual deployments, unclear ownership and security gaps. This scorecard gives you a fast way to review the health of your AWS or Azure environment.
Built for SaaS teams, CTOs, founders, DevOps teams and operations leaders running workloads on AWS, Azure or both.
Cloud issues usually start as small gaps
Many AWS and Azure environments work well enough day to day, but still carry hidden risks. Common issues include:
- Alerts that exist but do not cover the right failure points
- Cloud spend increasing without clear ownership
- Backups in place but recovery not properly tested
- Security controls configured once and rarely reviewed
- Deployments depending on manual steps
- No clear view of what happens if a core service fails
- Lack of evidence for audits, customer assurance or board reporting
The Cloud Health Scorecard helps you identify these gaps before they turn into outages, unexpected costs or stressful customer incidents.
Get your cloud health score in a few minutes
Answer a short set of questions about your AWS or Azure setup. The tool generates a score across five areas.
Monitoring Score
How well your environment detects issues before customers do.
Security Score
How clearly access, patching, logging and protection controls are managed.
Cost Score
How well cloud spend is reviewed, optimised and owned.
Resilience Score
How prepared your environment is for failures, outages and recovery events.
DevOps Maturity Score
How efficient, automated and reliable your deployment and operations process is.
Your cloud health results — built as you go
The scorecard updates live and gives you a full breakdown plus DIY recommendations once you finish.
Ready to score your cloud?
~5 minutes. 24 short questions across 5 categories. Instant scoring and DIY recommendations.
DIY cloud health checklist
Before you book a review, here are practical checks your team can start with.
Monitoring
- Check your top five business-critical services have active monitoring
- Confirm alerts go to the right people
- Remove alerts nobody acts on
- Review incident history from the last 90 days
- Check application-level errors, not just infrastructure uptime
Security
- Review admin access
- Confirm MFA is enforced
- Check stale users and unused accounts
- Review firewall/security group exposure
- Confirm logs are retained long enough for audit and incident investigation
Cost
- Review last three months of spend
- Identify top five cost-driving services
- Look for idle, oversized or duplicated resources
- Check unused disks, snapshots and storage
- Set monthly budget alerts
Resilience
- Confirm backups are running
- Test one restore
- Review recovery documentation
- Identify single points of failure
- Agree who responds during an incident
DevOps
- List manual release steps
- Check rollback process
- Review environment drift
- Identify repeated operational tasks
- Prioritise automation that saves engineering time
What is a cloud health scorecard?
A cloud health scorecard is a structured way to assess how well your AWS or Azure environment is performing across the areas that matter most: monitoring, security, cost, resilience and delivery maturity. It helps teams move beyond vague questions like "is our cloud setup okay?" and gives them a clearer view of where risk, waste or operational pressure may exist. For SaaS businesses, cloud health is especially important because small weaknesses can quickly affect customer experience, engineering speed, cloud spend and investor or customer confidence.
Why cloud health matters for SaaS teams
SaaS companies often move quickly. That speed is useful, but it can also create hidden cloud debt. Over time, teams may add new services, environments, integrations and deployment processes without fully reviewing the operational impact. This can lead to higher AWS or Azure costs, poor alerting, security gaps, manual deployment risk, weak recovery processes, unclear ownership, audit evidence gaps and slower product delivery. A cloud health assessment helps expose these issues before they become expensive.
AWS and Azure health checks should be practical
A good AWS or Azure health check should not just produce a technical report. It should help the team answer practical questions: What needs fixing first? What creates the most risk? Where are we wasting money? What could cause downtime? What is slowing the engineering team down? What evidence would we need for customers, audits or internal assurance? What can we improve without rebuilding everything? That is why this scorecard focuses on five practical categories rather than hundreds of abstract checks.
When should you run a cloud health assessment?
- Your AWS or Azure bill has increased
- You have had recent incidents or near misses
- Your team is struggling with manual deployments
- You are preparing for customer due diligence
- You need better audit evidence
- You are scaling a SaaS product
- Your CTO or founder is still heavily involved in operations
- You are not sure if backups or recovery plans actually work
- You have changed cloud provider, architecture or support model
- You want a clearer roadmap for improving cloud operations
What happens after the scorecard?
The scorecard gives you a useful starting point. The next step is to prioritise. Not every issue needs to be fixed immediately. Some improvements are quick wins. Others need planning. The important thing is to understand which gaps are most likely to affect uptime, security, cost or delivery speed. IG CloudOps can help you turn the scorecard into a practical action plan.
Frequently asked questions
What is a cloud health scorecard?+
A cloud health scorecard is a structured assessment that scores your cloud setup across important areas such as monitoring, security, cost, resilience and DevOps maturity.
Does this work for both AWS and Azure?+
Yes. The scorecard is designed for AWS, Azure and mixed AWS/Azure environments.
Is this only for SaaS companies?+
No, but it is especially useful for SaaS and technology-led organisations where uptime, cloud cost, security and delivery speed are important.
How long does the scorecard take?+
Most users can complete it in a few minutes.
Will I get recommendations?+
Yes. The tool provides DIY recommendations based on your scores across all five categories.
Do I need technical knowledge to use it?+
Some cloud knowledge helps, but the questions are clear enough for CTOs, founders, operations leads and technical managers.
What happens if my score is low?+
A low score does not mean everything is broken. It means there are areas worth reviewing. The tool suggests practical next steps and offers the option to request a cloud review.
Can IG CloudOps help fix the issues?+
Yes. IG CloudOps can help with AWS and Azure monitoring, cost optimisation, security reviews, resilience planning, DevOps improvements and ongoing cloud operations support.
Want a second opinion on your cloud score?
If your score shows gaps in monitoring, security, cost, resilience or DevOps maturity, IG CloudOps can help you review the environment and prioritise what to fix first.
UK-based AWS and Azure support. Practical advice, senior expertise and no unnecessary long-term commitment.
- AWS and Azure health checks
- Monitoring and alert reviews
- Cloud cost optimisation
- Security and access reviews
- Backup and recovery checks
- DevOps pipeline improvement
- PAYG cloud support
- Ongoing CloudOps support