Sustainability

• The sustainability pillar focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads.

• Design Principles

• Understand your impact – establish performance indicators, evaluate improvements

• Establish sustainability goals – Set long-term goals for each workload, and model return on investment (ROI)

• Maximize utilization – Right size each workload to maximize the energy efficiency of the underlying hardware and minimize idle resources.

• Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings – and design for flexibility to adopt new technologies over time.

• Use managed services – Shared services reduce the amount of infrastructure; Managed services help automate sustainability best practices such as moving infrequently accessed data to cold storage and adjusting compute capacity.

• Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads – Reduce the amount of energy or resources required to use your services and reduce the need for your customers to upgrade their devices