Sustainability Best Practices - AWS Well-Architected Framework Study Guide

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Region Selection

• Choose Regions based on both business requirements and sustainability goals
• Ask:
  • How do you select Regions to support your sustainability goals?

User behavior patterns

• Scale infrastructure with user load
• Eliminate creation and maintenance of unused assets
• Optimize geographic placement of workloads for user locations
• Optimize team member resources for activities performed
• Ask:
  • How do you take advantage of user behavior patterns to support your sustainability goals?

Software and architecture patterns

• Optimize software and architecture for asynchronous and scheduled jobs
• Remove or refactor workload components with low or no use
• Optimize areas of code that consume the most time or resources
• Optimize impact on customer devices and equipment
• Use software patterns and architectures that best support data access and storage patterns
• Ask:
  • How do you take advantage of software and architecture patterns to support your sustainability goals?

Data patterns

• Implement a data classification policy
• Use technologies that support data access and storage patterns
• Use lifecycle policies to delete unnecessary data
• Minimize over-provisioning in block storage
• Remove unneeded or redundant data
• Use shared file systems or object storage to access common data
• Back up data only when difficult to recreate
• Ask:
  • How do you take advantage of data access and usage patterns to support your sustainability goals?

Hardware patterns

• Use the minimum amount of hardware to meet your needs
• Use instance types with the least impact
• Use managed services
• Optimize your use of GPUs
• Ask:
  • How do your hardware management and usage practices support your sustainability goals?

Development and deployment

• Adopt methods that can rapidly introduce sustainability improvements
• Keep your workload up to date
• Increase utilization of build environments
• Use managed device farms for testing
• Ask:
  • How do your development and deployment processes support your sustainability goals?

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