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Feb 18, 2026

Platform as a Product: The key to platform engineering success

Platform as a Product: The key to platform engineering success

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Reference architecture of an Internal Developer Platform on AWS Copy

Platform as a Product is a foundational aspect of platform engineering. In this whitepaper, we examine the significance of Platform as a Product in building successful Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), and its importance in delivering the true value of platform engineering.
Based on experience with hundreds of platform engineering teams, this whitepaper will answer:

  • What is Platform as a Product? What is its importance to platform engineering?

  • What are the challenges of adopting a Platform as a Product approach?

  • What Best practices for implementing Platform as a Product?
    According to the 2023 DevOps Benchmarking study, 93% of top performing teams use a platform built and maintained by a platform team. The majority of this number follow a Platform as a Product approach.

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Practice Areas

Observability + Platform Engineering

FinOps + Platform Engineering

Enterprise Model Layer

Application Security

Enterprise Identity Stack

AI Platform Teams

Agentic Enterprise

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