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  1. 1Design Airbnb's search functionality.HardSystem design· Airbnb, Amazon
  2. 2Design Amazon's Kindle payment system.HardProductSystem design· Amazon
  3. 3Design Amazon Prime video.HardSystem design· Amazon
  4. 4Design Amazon Storage.HardProductSystem design· Amazon
  5. 5Design a distributed logging system.HardSystem design· Amazon, Goldman Sachs
  6. 6Design the leaderboard for Dream11 fantasy gaming with 100,000 registered teams.HardSystem design· Amazon
  7. 7Design an emergency service system for Alexa for a break-in scenario.HardProductSystem design· Amazon
  8. 8Design a file system.HardSystem design· Amazon, Microsoft
  9. 9Design Instagram.HardProductSystem design· Amazon, Instagram
  10. 10Design a monitoring system for 1000 web servers.MediumSystem designTechnical· Amazon, Google
  11. 11Design the front page of a newspaper app.MediumProductSystem design· Amazon
  12. 12Design a reservation and payment system for a parking garage.HardSystem design· Amazon, AtoB
  13. 13Design Prime Video.HardSystem design· Amazon
  14. 14Design a rate limiter.MediumSystem design· Amazon, Google
  15. 15How would you design a large-scale ticketing system that can handle millions of users during peak events (e.g., Black Friday)?HardSystem design· Amazon
  16. 16Design a system that ingests book reviews from Amazon.com and provides book recommendations on your website.HardSystem designTechnical· Amazon
  17. 17Design a system to track reviews abuse on Amazon.com.HardDataProduct· Amazon, DoorDash
  18. 18Design a system to upgrade hundreds of thousands of machines on the Moon.HardSystem design· Amazon, Google
  19. 19How would you design a three-tier architecture?MediumSystem design· Amazon
  20. 20Design a typeahead box for a search engine.HardSystem design· Adobe, Amazon
  21. 21Design Uber Eats.HardSystem design· Amazon, Meta
  22. 22Design the architecture for a hardware device that measures temperature and social distance among employees in warehouses during COVID.HardSystem designTechnical· Amazon
  23. 23How would you launch a standalone Amazon restaurant food delivery app?HardProductSystem design· Amazon
  24. 24Design a Distributed Message QueueHardSystem design· Amazon