Sustainability
The sustainability pillar provides design principles, operational guidance, best-practices, and improvement plans to meet sustainability targets for your Amazon Web Services workloads.
On average, two-third of companies' total greenhouse-gas emissions rely on their supply chains. For example, the typical consumer company's supply chain creates far greater social and environmental costs than its own operations, accounting for more than 80 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions and more than 90 percent of the impact on air, land, water, biodiversity, and geological resources.
Sustainability factors can also alter the growth projections of
companies. Companies know that they will have to greatly reduce the
natural and social costs of their products and services to
capitalize on rising demand for them without taxing the environment
or human welfare. Technology and cloud opportunities play a key role
in this landscape as transitions to net-zero are relying on
breakthrough innovations (for more information, see
Fight
Supply Chain Emissions to Fight Climate Change
Most of the implementation guidance you can find in the Sustainability Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework is applicable in the supply chain space, and that guidance is referenced in this document when relevant. Some specific implementation guidance is provided through this lens due to the specific nature of supply chain workloads:
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On-premises workloads over different regions managing OT and IT at manufacturing sites, warehouses and fulfillment centers (FCs), distribution, sort centers, or logistics hubs.
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In the cloud, workloads across different Regions, sensors, and devices used for traceability purposes by logistic providers, and systems running across the suppliers' network.
A starting point is cloud sustainability, bringing with it the Shared Responsibility Model, the sustainability optimization reachable through the cloud, and the design principles for the sustainability in the cloud.
Focus areas
