The document outlines 15 ways to optimize Spring Boot applications for the cloud. It recommends using services provided by cloud platforms for monitoring, Spring Cloud Sleuth for request tracing, Spring Boot Actuator for metrics and health checks, and circuit breakers to prevent failures from cascading. It also suggests keeping dependencies up-to-date, using Eclipse OpenJ9 to reduce memory usage, enabling zero-downtime configuration changes, and introducing chaos testing into production environments.