Overview
AWS aims to power operations with 100% renewable energy and is on a path to be water positive by 2030. The AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool reports your emissions in tCO2e. The AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar gives you design principles to reduce the environmental impact of your workloads — choose efficient regions, right-size, use Graviton, choose serverless, and optimize data storage and transfer.
Key concepts
- Cloud vs. on-prem carbon — the efficiency dividend
- Region selection by carbon intensity
- Architectural patterns for efficiency (Graviton, serverless, async)
- Measuring and reporting Scope 1/2/3 emissions
- Sustainable data: lifecycle, tiering, deduplication
Key AWS services
- AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
- AWS Graviton
- AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar
Learn more — curated resources
Hand-picked official docs, foundational papers, and the best community guides for going deeper on this topic.