Post Syndicated from Luca Mezzalira original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/lets-architect-architecting-for-sustainability/

Sustainability is an important topic in the tech industry, as well as society as a whole, and defined as the ability to continue to perform a process or function over an extended period of time without depletion of natural resources or the environment.

One of the key elements to designing a sustainable workload is software architecture. Think about how event-driven architecture can help reduce the load across multiple microservices, leveraging solutions like batching and queues. In these cases, the main traffic is absorbed at the entry-point of a cloud workload and ease inside your system. On top of architecture, think about data patterns, hardware optimizations, multi-environment strategies, and many more aspects of a software development lifecycle that can contribute to your sustainable posture in the Cloud.

The key takeaway: designing with sustainability in mind can help you build an application that is not only durable but also flexible enough to maintain the agility your business requires.

In this edition of Let’s Architect!, we share hands-on activities, case studies, and tips and tricks for making your Cloud applications more sustainable.

Architecting sustainably and reducing your AWS carbon footprint

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Sustainability Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to help organizations evaluate and optimize their use of AWS services, and built the customer carbon footprint tool so organizations can monitor, analyze, and reduce their AWS footprint.

This session provides updates on these programs and highlights the most effective techniques for optimizing your AWS architectures. Find out how Amazon Prime Video used these tools to establish baselines and drive significant efficiencies across their AWS usage.

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Optimize your modern data architecture for sustainability

The modern data architecture is the foundation for a sustainable and scalable platform that enables business intelligence. This AWS Architecture Blog series provides tips on how to develop a modern data architecture with sustainability in mind.

Comprised of two posts, it helps you revisit and enhance your current data architecture without compromising sustainability.

Take me to Part 1! | Take me to Part 2!

AWS Well-Architected Labs: Sustainability

This workshop introduces participants to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, a set of best practices for designing and operating high-performing, highly scalable, and cost-efficient applications on AWS. The workshop also discusses how sustainability is critical to software architecture and how to use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to improve your application’s sustainability performance.

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Sustainability in the cloud with Rust and AWS Graviton

In this video, you can learn about the benefits of Rust and AWS Graviton to reduce energy consumption and increase performance. Rust combines the resource efficiency of programming languages, like C, with memory safety of languages, like Java. The video also explains the benefits deriving from AWS Graviton processors designed to deliver performance- and cost-optimized cloud workloads. This resource is very helpful to understand how sustainability can become a driver for cost optimization.

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See you next time!

Thanks for joining us to discuss sustainability in the cloud! See you in two weeks when we’ll talk about tools for architects.

To find all the blogs from this series, you can check the Let’s Architect! list of content on the AWS Architecture Blog.