Well-Architected - Sustainability
Reduce resource usage and environmental impact while meeting business goals
Sustainability
Minimize the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads.
Practices
- Choose efficient services and architectures (managed, serverless where feasible).
- Right-size and hibernate/stop idle resources; align capacity with demand.
- Optimize data storage and movement; reduce retries and waste.
FCAI alignment
- Surfaces idle resources and wasteful patterns with savings and impact estimates.
- Encourages efficient defaults (e.g., Graviton, lifecycle policies, compression).