About an hour. It was easy, but not that easy; kinda hard, but not hard, you know. Would I do an interview here again? Maybe. Who knows? But that is life.
Design a 3-tier web app (EC2, RDS, Scaling Groups, etc).
Repeat with Lambda and API Gateway.
Check for monitoring, logging, and scaling.
Ask about S3 tiers.
Ask simple things like: What are important considerations when developing a new API? Ask about OWASP vulnerabilities.
'You are on call and are told "the website is slow". How would you diagnose?' (Logs, network, scaling, monitoring, etc.)
Ask them to describe the latest thing they worked on and diagram it out/explain it. They should be able to. As they go, it might lead to more questions ('What does this part do?').
The following metrics were computed from 49 interview experiences for the Amazon Solutions Architect role in United States.
Amazon's interview process for their Solutions Architect roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Amazon's Solutions Architect interview process in United States.