Staging in the cloud, with every resource being defined via infrastructure as code is actually not too bad. Staging is hard when your software is poorly written

Staging in the cloud, with every resource being defined via infrastructure as code is actually not too bad. Staging is hard when your software is poorly written or your infrastructure is janky. A lot of the value in beta, staging, and then prod is the fact that the code ran successfully twice (even if with no real data), before getting to prod. This roots out a surprising number of bugs. Throw in some light integration testing and youre a professional