AWS Prescriptive Guidance
- What it is
- A library of strategies, guides, patterns, and playbooks from AWS solutions architects and professional services, based on real customer engagements.
- Free and public.
- What you find there
- Migration playbooks (Oracle to Aurora, mainframe modernization, VMware to AWS).
- Reusable architecture patterns with deployable code.
- Cloud operating model and governance strategy guides.
- AWS Well-Architected lenses applied to specific industries.
- The distinction from documentation
- Documentation says what a service does. Prescriptive Guidance says what you should do, in what order, and why for a specific outcome.
- Where it sits
- AWS Knowledge Center — common troubleshooting answers.
- AWS re:Post — community Q&A.
- Prescriptive Guidance — expert playbooks for a whole initiative.