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Rudy Krol
Principal Sustainability Solutions Architect
rudykrol@amazon.fr
Optimizing architectures for
Sustainability
API Days, 15th December 2022

2. 2023 SERIES OF EVENT
New York
May 16&17
Australia
October 11&12
Singapore
April 12&13
Helsinki & North
June 5&6
Paris
SEPTEMBER
London
November
15&16
June 28-30
SILICON VALLEY
March 14&15
Dubai & Middle East
February 22&23

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Customer
AWS
AWS is responsible for
sustainability of the cloud
Shared sustainability responsibility with AWS
Data design & usage
Software application design
Platform deployments and scaling
Data storage Code efficiency Utilization & scaling
Servers Waste
Building
materials
Data centers
Electricity supply
Cooling Water
AWS Global
Infrastructure
Customer is responsible for
sustainability in the cloud

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Customer
AWS
AWS is responsible for
sustainability of the cloud
Customer is responsible for
sustainability in the cloud
The sustainability responsibility of the cloud
AWS Global
Infrastructure
Data design & usage
Software application design
Platform deployments and scaling
Data storage Code efficiency Utilization & scaling
Servers Waste
Building
materials
Data centers
Electricity supply
Cooling Water

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Water stewardship: evaporative
cooling, recycled water, and
onsite water treatment
Renewable energy to
power data centers
Removing central UPS reduces
energy conversions, optimizations
on the racks reduce energy use
New data center
construction incorporates use
of low-carbon concrete
AWS Graviton processors use up to
60% less energy for same
performance than comparable
instances
Amazon Sustainability Data
Initiative (ASDI) provides free access
to satellite data and climate models
AWS journey highlights

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The sustainability responsibility in the cloud
Customer
AWS
AWS is responsible for
sustainability of the cloud
Data Design & Usage
Software Application Design
Platform Deployments and Scaling
Data Storage Code Efficiency Utilization & Scaling
AWS Global
Infrastructure
Customer is responsible for
sustainability in the cloud
Servers Waste
Building
materials
Data centers
Electricity supply
Cooling Water

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BUSINESS NEED
Time to value for feature
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What do we optimize architectures for?

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Sustainability in the cloud is
a continuous, focused effort on
energy reduction and efficiency
across all components of a workload

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Identify targets for improvement
Evaluate specific improvements
Prioritize and plan improvements
Test and validate improvements
Deploy changes to production
Measure results and replicate successes
Improvement process
Monitor
Goals
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Resources
Unit of work
Normalize sustainability KPIs to make them comparable

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Best practices from the Sustainability Pillar
User
behavior
Data
Software and
architecture
Hardware Development
and deployment
process
Region
selection

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Region selection
Select AWS Regions near AWS renewable energy projects
Select AWS Regions where carbon intensity is low

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AWS Regions selection based on market-based method
AWS Regions powered by over 95% renewable energy in 2021
US East (Northern Virginia)
GovCloud (US-East)
US East (Ohio)
US West (Oregon)
GovCloud (US-West)
US West (Northern California)
Canada (Central)
Europe (Ireland)
Europe (Frankfurt)
Europe (London)
Europe (Milan)
Europe (Paris)
Europe (Stockholm)
Renewable Energy Methodology

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User behaviour patterns
Scale infrastructure with user load
Align service level agreements (SLAs) with sustainability goals
Eliminate the creation and maintenance of unused assets
Optimize the geographic placement of your workloads for
user locations
Optimize team member resources for the activities performed

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May
reduce cost
Small increase
in response time
Reduction in
overall impact
Architectural recommendation

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Software patterns
Optimize software and architecture for asynchronous and
scheduled jobs
Remove or refactor workload components with low or no use
Optimize the areas of your code that consume the most time
or resources
Optimize impact on customer devices and equipment
Use software patterns and architectures that best support your
data access and storage patterns

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programming
language
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/
opensource/sustainability-with-
rust/

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Tenable infrastructure savings

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Hardware patterns
Use the minimum amount of hardware to meet your needs
Use the instance types that meet your requirements with the
least impact
Use managed services
Optimize your use of GPUs

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AWS managed services supporting Graviton2
Amazon
DocumentDB
Amazon
Aurora
Amazon
RDS
Amazon
Elasticache
Amazon
OpenSearch
Amazon
EMR
AWS
Lambda
AWS Fargate Amazon FSx
for Lustre,
Open ZFS
Amazon
MemoryDB
Databases
Analytics Compute Storage
Amazon
Neptune
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk

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Data patterns
Implement a data classification policy
Use technologies that best support your data access and
storage patterns
Use lifecycle policies to automatically delete unnecessary data
Minimize overprovisioning in block storage
Remove unneeded or redundant data
Use shared file systems or object storage to access common data
Minimize data movement across networks
Only backup data when it would be more impactful, or impossible,
to recreate

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Hot Warm Cold Deleted
S3 Standard
Active data
Millisecond
access
> 3 AZ
S3
Standard-IA
Inactive data
Millisecond
access
> 3 AZ
S3 One
Zone-IA
Inactive data
Millisecond
access
1 AZ
S3
Glacier
Archive data
Minutes to
hours
> 3 AZ
S3 Glacier
Deep Archive
Archive data
Hours access
> 3 AZ
Useless data
0 AZ
Pick a lower impact storage class
Use Intelligent Tiering to optimize for you – Example Amazon S3:

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Development and deployment process
Adopt development
and testing methods
that allow rapid
introduction of
potential sustainability
improvements
Keep your workload
up to date
Increase the
utilization of your
build environments
Use managed device
farms for testing

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https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

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Thank you!
Rudy Krol
Principal Sustainability Solutions Architect
rudykrol@amazon.fr