Golden Paths & Paved Roads

The officially supported, easy default way to build and deploy — that's still possible to deviate from when genuinely needed.

Read

38 min

Practice MCQs

25

Interview QA

25

Edition

v3

Editorial status

Reviewed

Relevant for

Platform Engineer

Scope: AWS Internal Developer Platform Prescriptive Guidance, Microsoft Platform Engineering guidance, Google Cloud platform engineering guidance, and Backstage stable documentation current 2026-08-31.