Definition - SaaS Lens

This whitepaper contains additional guidance not found in the SaaS Lens of the AWS Well-Architected Tool.

Definition

Optimize workload placement, and optimize your architecture for user, software, data, hardware, and development and deployment patterns to increase energy efficiency. Each of these areas represents opportunities to employ best practices to reduce the sustainability impact of your cloud workload by maximizing utilization, and minimizing waste and the total resources deployed and powered to support your workload.

  • Region selection

  • User behavior patterns

  • Software and architecture patterns

  • Data patterns

  • Hardware patterns

  • Development and deployment patterns