Best practices

There are six best practice areas for sustainability in the cloud:

• Region selection
• User behavior patterns
• Software and architecture patterns
• Data patterns
• Hardware patterns
• Development and deployment patterns

Unlike the other pillars, the numbering of the sustainability best practices indicates the estimated complexity of implementing that best practice. We recommend that you consider this order when planning your sustainability improvement plan.

• SaaS SUS 1: How do you use deployment models (silo, bridge, pool) to align tenant consumption with resource utilization?

• SaaS SUS 2: How do you maximize the value from the resources that the SaaS environment consumes?

• SaaS SUS 3: Do you have a tenant off-boarding plan for inactive tenants? How do you decommission tenant resources that are not being used to limit or prevent waste?

• SaaS SUS 4: How do you provide per-tenant footprint visibility (such as resource utilization and carbon emission data) in your SaaS environment?