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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).