It is a lot easier to find out about butterfly life history and development than it is to find for moth species. For many moth species, it is difficult to find out detailed information on its recorded host plants, egg incubation duration, each instar stage duration and characteristics, pupa duration and eclosion.
Thankfully, Atlas moth being how interesting and eye catching it is, is a little better documented. Some effort is still required to hunt down the information and use whatever that is useful.
I have put the links I have read (again and again) together in this post, hopefully it will be useful to those reading it.
The first series of information I read on Atlas moths were from ButterflyCircle. It helped a lot with reading it as a story form with its developments
https://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-atlas-moth-chronicles-episode-1.html
https://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-atlas-moth-chronicles-episode-2.html
https://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-atlas-moth-chronicles-episode-3.html?m=0
This link was useful in knowing what are the possible host plants for the Atlas moth. I experimented with a few but am very likely to stick with Ardisia elliptica (which interestingly, isn't on this list athough another Ardesia species is listed) which was the host plant that we found the eggs on.
https://breedingbutterflies.com/attacus-atlas-data/
Even harder to find were instar information, which the ButterflyCircle blog posts did not quire mention as well. Scrolling past the trivia, somewhere in the middle of the post below, you would be able to find the instar information, which was useful to anticipate and confirm instar duration and appearances.
https://wiki.nus.edu.sg/display/TAX/Attacus+atlas+-+Atlas+Moth
Lastly, the post below briefly mention about the cocoon requirements, which i find it useful. the rest of the information are generic and appeared in most other articles.
https://www.keepinginsects.com/butterfly/species/atlas-moth/
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