Prepare for your Amazon solutions architect interview

Cloud architecture and AWS infrastructure cases tailored to Amazon's approach to scalability, cost optimization, and operational excellence.

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The Interview

What Amazon is looking for

Architecture Design Interview

AWS & System Design

01AWS Service Selection

02Scalability & Performance

03High Availability & Resilience

04Cost Optimization

Behavioral Interview

Leadership Principles

01Customer Obsession

02Bias for Action

03Operational Excellence

04Technical Communication

AWS ecosystem expertise//Serverless and cloud-native thinking//Cost-aware architecture

Practice Library

Amazon exercises

Ready to ace your Amazon AWS solutions architect interview?

Prepare for your Amazon solutions architect interview

Cloud architecture and AWS infrastructure cases tailored to Amazon's approach to scalability, cost optimization, and operational excellence.

Socratify AI

The Interview

What Amazon is looking for

Architecture Design Interview

AWS & System Design

01AWS Service Selection

02Scalability & Performance

03High Availability & Resilience

04Cost Optimization

Behavioral Interview

Leadership Principles

01Customer Obsession

02Bias for Action

03Operational Excellence

04Technical Communication

AWS ecosystem expertise//Serverless and cloud-native thinking//Cost-aware architecture

How It Works

Master Amazon AWS Architecture

Cloud infrastructure and AWS architecture cases evaluated by Amazon systems architects. · Click to expand

1Your Solutions Architect Goals

Architecture Design

Practitioner

Trade-Off Analysis

Practitioner

2Solutions Architect Case Prep

Design a highly available e-commerce platform on AWS for 10M monthly users with...

CASE INTERVIEWHard

Amazon

3Frameworks

Framework

What architectural approach best matches the use case requirements?

Monolithic vs. microservices architecture

Monolithic: Simpler deployment, 2-4 week release cycles, tightly coupled

Microservices: Independent scaling, 1-day release cycles, distributed complexity

Database selection: SQL vs. NoSQL vs. Hybrid

ACID: SQL databases, 10-100ms p99 latency, constrained write throughput

Eventual consistency: NoSQL, <1ms p99 latency, 100K+ writes/sec

How do we handle growth and distributed demands?

Compute scaling strategy and resource allocation

Horizontal scaling: +$5K/mo per 10K users, 15% ops overhead

Vertical scaling: Single-server limit ~100K connections, then degradation

Multi-region redundancy and disaster recovery

Active-active (2+ regions): 99.99% uptime, 3x cost, <100ms latency variance

Active-passive: 99.9% uptime, 1.5x cost, 15-30min failover RTO

How do we manage cost, security, and operational risk?

Cost optimization and cloud spend management

68% of cloud budgets wasted on unused resources

Right-sizing + reserved instances reduce compute costs 40-60%

Security, compliance, and data protection strategy

87% of data breaches via misconfigured cloud storage

Zero-trust architecture reduces lateral movement risk 95%

4Feedback

Architecture Design

Distinctive

Scalability & Performance

Strong

Trade-off Analysis

Meeting Bar

Resilience & Reliability

Strong

Repeat

Practice Library

Amazon exercises

Design a highly available e-commerce platform on AWS for 10M monthly users with...

CASE INTERVIEWHard

Cloud · System DesignAmazon

Walk me through a cost optimization strategy for a customer with annual AWS spend of $5M.

LEARNMedium

Cloud · Cost OptimizationAmazon

Design a multi-region failover strategy for a critical application. What would trigger...

LEARNHard

Cloud · Disaster RecoveryAmazon

Tell me about a time you convinced stakeholders to adopt a novel technology or approach...

LEARNMedium

Cloud · BehavioralAmazon

How would you architect a solution that requires <500ms response time with 1M+...

LEARNHard

Cloud · ScalingAmazon