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Sustainability Design Principles and Definition - AWS Well-Architected Framework Study Guide

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Sustainability

  • Focuses on environmental impacts, especially energy consumption and efficiency
  • These are important levers for architects to inform direct action to reduce resource usage

Design Principles

  • Understand your impact
  • Establish sustainability goals
  • Maximize utilization
  • Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings
  • Use managed services
  • Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads

Definition

  • Six best practice areas
    • Region selection
    • User behavior patterns
    • Software and architecture patterns
    • Data patterns
    • Hardware patterns
    • Development and deployment process

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