Sustainability pillar

The sustainability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads. The following recommendations can help you meet the sustainability design principles and architectural best practices for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.

Key focus areas:

• Shared responsibility model for sustainability

• Understanding impact

• Maximizing utilization to minimize required resources and reduce downstream impacts

Understand your impact

• Track FSx for Windows File Server metrics to understand the impact of current consumption and any configuration changes you apply.

Maximize utilization

• Automatically scale the storage and throughput capacity of your FSx for Windows File Server file systems based on utilization metrics. For more information, see:

  • Increasing the storage capacity of an FSx for Windows File Server file system dynamically in the Amazon FSx documentation.

  • How to modify throughput capacity in the Amazon FSx documentation.

  • Amazon FSx for Windows File Server – Automatic Storage and Throughput Capacity Scaling on the AWS YouTube channel.