This whitepaper paper provides prescriptive guidance to cloud architects so that they can build highly scalable and elastic applications optimized to run in AWS cloud. It discusses cloud concepts and highlights various design patterns and best practices. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in PDF format at
Not something people will want to read for entertainment. However, if you're one of the hundreds, if not thousands of companies who use AWS for cloud infrastructure, this is a must read. It's critical to understand what the AWS platform can do, how to put the pieces together successfully and how to explain it to others.
I am so far 2 for 2 with my AWS certification exam journey. I accredit the AWS Whitepapers, API documentation, FAQs, and ACloudGuru for my success so far.