How to eliminate DevOps toil in regulated SaaS

In regulated industries such as fintech, healthcare, and government, DevOps teams face significant challenges due to the compliance tax, a burden of manual operations and security reviews that hampers productivity and leads to environment drift, deployment failures, and audit issues. This toil is mitigated by shifting from manual enforcement to governance by design, where policies are automatically enforced through system-level guarantees rather than human bottlenecks. Upsun exemplifies this shift by using Git as the control plane, providing a single source of truth for infrastructure and application configurations, enabling machine-readable governance, and transforming compliance into an inherent feature of the workflow. This approach eliminates the need for manual evidence collection during audits and allows DevOps teams to focus on innovation rather than firefighting. Additionally, Upsun's compliance certifications, automated evidence generation, and uptime guarantees further reduce operational toil and ensure adherence to regulatory obligations, ultimately allowing organizations to reclaim capacity and enhance their development velocity.