Improve workload sustainability with services and features from re:Invent 2021

{"value":"At our recent annual [ Amazon Web Services re:Invent](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/)2021 conference, we had important announcements regarding sustainability, including the new [Sustainability Pillar](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/sustainability-pillar.html) for [Amazon Web Services Well-Architected Framework](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/) and the [ Amazon Web Services Customer Carbon Footprint](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-customer-carbon-footprint-tool/) Tool.\n\nIn this blog post, I highlight services and features from these announcements to help you design and optimize your Amazon Web Services workloads from a sustainability perspective.\n\n#### **Architecting for sustainability basics**\nEnvironmental sustainability [ is a shared responsibility](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/the-shared-responsibility-model.html) between customers and Amazon Web Services. We maintain sustainability of the cloud by delivering efficient, shared infrastructure. As a customer, you maintain sustainability in the cloud. This means you optimize your workload to efficiently use resources.\n\n\n\nFigure 1. Shared responsibility model for sustainability\n\nThe Sustainability Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework provides the following [ design principles](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/design-principles-for-sustainability-in-the-cloud.html) that you can use to optimize your workload for sustainability in the cloud:\n\n- Understand your impact.\n- Establish sustainability goals.\n- Maximize utilization.\n- Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings.\n- Use managed services.\n- Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads.\n\nIn the next sections, I share new services and service features that were announced at re:Invent 2021 that are related to these design principles and provide recommendations on how they can help you design and operate your workloads more sustainably.\n\n#### **Understand your impact**\nMeasure the environmental impact of your workloads and propose optimizations to meet your sustainability goals:\n\n- Understand your workload’s environmental impact with new [Amazon Web Services Compute Optimizer](http://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer) [ resource efficiency metrics](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-compute-optimizer-resource-efficiency-metrics/) metrics and [enhanced metrics](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-compute-optimizer-enhanced-infrastructure-metrics-ec2-instances/).\n- Optimize scaling decisions and reduce idle resources associated with domain controllers with [Amazon Web Services Directory](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directory-service/) [Service for Microsoft Active Directory](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directory-service/) and [information](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-managed-microsoft-ad-amazon-cloudwatch/)in [Amazon CloudWatch](http://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch).\n- Use the [ SQL-based metrics query engine](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-insights-preview/) to simplify gathering metrics to find optimization opportunities with CloudWatch.\n\n#### **Maximize utilization**\nReduce the total energy required to power your workloads by right-sizing your workloads to ensure high utilization and eliminating or minimizing idle resources.\n\n***Optimize your storage***\n- Use new storage tiers in [Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/1\\n- 1/retention-ebs-snapshots-75-amazon-archive-tier/), [ Amazon Timestream](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-timestream-scheduled-queries-multi-measure-records-magnetic-storage-writes/), [Amazon Web Services IoT SiteWise](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-sitewise-storage-tiers-industrial-data/), [ Amazon DynamoDB](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-dynamodb-standard-infrequent-access-table-class/), and [Amazon ElastiCache for Redis](Amazon ElastiCache for Redis) to [ move data to “colder” tiers](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/use-technologies-that-best-support-data-access-and-storage-patterns.html).\n- Support new storage access patterns with the [Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Glacier Instant Retrieval](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-glacier-instant-retrieval-storage-class/) and [ Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/s3-intelligent-tiering-archive-instant-access-tier/)\n- Delete data that you don’t need by [using lifecycle policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/use-lifecycle-policies-to-delete-unnecessary-data.html) with fine-grained controls that use [ new actions and filters](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-lifecycle-storage-cost-savings/).\n- Use [ storage optimization](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lake-formation-governed-tables-storage-security/) for [Amazon Web Services Lake Formation](https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/) to reduce and optimize your storage with its garbage collection and data compaction features.\n\n***Optimize data movement***\nMoving data across networks can contribute to energy consumption and your overall costs. Optimizing networks and data movement can save energy and costs. Optimize the way you access and[ move data across networks ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/minimize-data-movement-across-networks.html) by:\n\n- Use [Amazon Web Services Direct Connect SiteLink](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-direct-connect-sitelink/) to connect an on-premises network directly through the Amazon Web Services global network. This helps your data travel more efficiently (across the shortest path) rather than using public network.\n- Migrate tape backups to the cloud with [ Amazon Web Services Snow Family offline tape data migration](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-snow-family-offline-tape-data-migration-capability/). This helps you eliminate physical tapes and store your virtual tapes in the cloud with cold storage.\n- Automakers that build connected cars generate loads of data. Use [ Amazon Web Services IoT FleetWise](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-fleetwise-transferring-vehicle-data-cloud/) to reduce the amount of unnecessary data transferred to the cloud.\n\n***Optimize your processing***\nMinimize the resources you use and increase the utilization of resources you use to run your workloads:\n\n- Optimize the resources you use for your machine learning (ML) models with [Amazon SageMaker ](https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/) [ Inference Recommender](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-inference-recommender/).\n- Reduce[ Amazon Web Services Lambda](http://aws.amazon.com/lambda) function executions with the [ new event filtering](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lambda-event-filtering-amazon-sqs-dynamodb-kinesis-sources/) for [ Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS),](http://aws.amazon.com/sqs), DynamoDB, and [Amazon Kinesis](https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis).\n- Minimize the amount of data that needs to be accessed by consumer clusters and provision flexible compute resources in [ Amazon Redshift](http://aws.amazon.com/redshift)t with [ new performance enhancements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/enhancements-amazon-redshift/).\n- Use the open-source Kubernetes cluster auto scaling project, [Amazon Web Services Karpenter](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-karpenter-v0-5/), to automatically adjust cluster capacity and meet actual demand.\n\n#### **Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings**\nRapid adoption of new, more efficient technologies helps you reduce the impact of your workloads.\n\n***Adopt more efficient instances***\n\n- Deploy your workloads on newer, price-performant hardware with the latest[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2) instance families from partner-based chips like the [Intel-based R6i](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-r6i-instances/), [AMD EPYC-based M6a](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-m6a-instances/), and[ Mac-based M1](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-macos/)\n- Use new Amazon Web Services-built chip instances based in [Amazon Web Services Graviton2](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/)like [ G5g](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-g5g-instances-aws-graviton2-processors/), [ Im4gn and Is4gen ](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-im4gn-is4gen-aws-graviton2/) for more energy-efficient instances.\n- Deploy the latest generation of custom-designed Amazon Web Services Graviton3-based instances:[C7g](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-c7g-instances-aws-graviton3-processors/). These instances offer the same performance and use 60% less energy than comparable EC2 instances.\n- Gain efficiency with the [Amazon Web Services Trainium ](https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/trainium/)ML chip [ Trn1](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-trn1-instances/).\n- Use managed services with Amazon Web Services Graviton2-based chips like Amazon Web Services Fargate for [Amazon Web Services Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS),](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-fargate-amazon-ecs-aws-graviton2-processors/), [Amazon Neptune](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-graviton2-based-instances-amazon-neptune/), [ElastiCache](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-elasticache-supports-t4g-graviton2-based-instances/), and [ Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/elastic-beanstalk-aws-graviton-ec2/), which are more energy efficient than comparable EC2 instances.\n- Right-size the on-premises Amazon Web Services workloads that you run with [smaller Amazon Web Services Outposts form factors](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-outposts-form-factors/) form factors.\n- For workloads that need bare metal instances, use more efficient hardware with the[ new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances/)\n\n***Use more efficient software offerings***\n- Use the [next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-lustre-file-systems/) to reduce storage space consumption and make use of more energy-efficient underlying hardware.\n- Minimize data movement with [ pull-through cache repositories ](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ecr-cache-repositories/) in [Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)](http://aws.amazon.com/ecr/).\n- Accelerate deep learning model training by using GPU instances more efficiently with[Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-training-compiler-dl-model-training-50/).\n- Improve query performance in [Amazon Redshift](https://aws.amazon.com/cn/redshift/?trk=cndc-detail) with [Automated Materialized Views](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-redshift-preview-automated-materialized-view/).\n- Reduce self-managed resources with intra-Region peering for[AWS Transit Gateway](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-transit-gateway-intra-region-cloud-network/).\n- Build event-driven applications based on changes to the data you store in [Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/cn/s3/?trk=cndc-detail) to be optimized, flexible, and scalable with Amazon Web Services serverless offerings and use advanced filtering and routing capabilities to send events to 18 targets by integrating [ Amazon S3 Event Notifications and Amazon EventBridge](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-event-notifications-amazon-eventbridge-build-advanced-serverless-applications/).\n- Use [new Amazon S3 Event Notifications](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-event-notifications-s3-lifecycle-intelligent-tiering-object-tags-object-access-control-lists/) to build event-driven applications and optimize resource efficiency of your workloads.\n- Simplify operations and retire infrastructure you use to provide remote access to Windows instances with [one-click login with Amazon Web Services Single Sign-On](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-single-sign-on-one-click-login-ec2-windows/)or [ Amazon Web Services System Manager Fleet Manager console-based access](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-systems-manager-console-windows-instances-security/).\n- Decrease SMS-related usage when you test your campaigns in [ Amazon Pinpoint](https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/) with the [SMS simulator](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-pinpoint-sms-simulator-feature/).\n\n#### **Use managed services**\nWe launched several managed services that [shift the responsibility of sustainability ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/use-managed-services.html)optimization to Amazon Web Services:\n\n- **Analytics**: [Amazon RedShift Serverless](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-redshift-serverless/), [Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Serverless](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-msk-serverless-public-preview/), [Amazon EMR](https://aws.amazon.com/cn/emr/?trk=cndc-detail) Serverless, and[ Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-on-demand/). Amazon Web Services managed services are scalable, have high average utilization of resources, and are optimized for sustainability.\n- **ML**: [ Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference ](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-serverless-inference/) is ideal for applications with intermittent or unpredictable traffic.\n- **Storage**: [Amazon FSx for OpenZFS ](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-openzfs/) is a fully managed file system that replaces ZFS and other on-premises Linux-based file servers.\n- **End-user compute**: [Amazon Workspaces Web ](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-workspaces-introduces-amazon-workspaces-web/) and [ Amazon Appstream2 Elastic (serverless) fleets](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-appstream-2-0-launches-elastic-fleets-serverless-fleet-type/) help reduce idle resources.\n- **Managed backup options**: [Amazon Web Services Backup](https://aws.amazon.com/backup/) for [ Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-backup-amazon-s3-backup/)and [ DynamoDB](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-dynamodb-requirements-aws-backup/) automate backup retention and deletion.\n- Build and manage your wide area network (WAN) with [ Amazon Web Services Cloud WAN](Amazon Web Services Cloud WAN).\n- **Migrate and modernize your workload** with [Amazon Web Services Mainframe Modernization](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/introducing-aws-mainframe-modernization/), which helps move on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed and highly available runtime environment on Amazon Web Services.\n- **Create digital twins of real-world systems** with [ Amazon Web Services IoT TwinMaker](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/introducing-aws-iot-twinmaker/).\n- **Publish and subscribe to third-party APIs** using a managed service with [ Amazon Web Services Data Exchange for APIs](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-data-exchange-for-apis/).\n\n#### **Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads**\n- Use the [Amazon Web Services Rust SDK ](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-rust-developer-preview/) for the native [ energy efficiency gains of the Rust](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-rust/) programming language.\n- Use[ Amazon CloudWatch RUM](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-cloudwatch-rum-applications-client-side-performance/) to understand the performance of your application and use that information to make it more efficient.\n- Review your carbon emissions with the new Amazon Web Services Customer Carbon Footprint Tool. This helps you define your sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs), optimize your workloads for sustainability, and improve your KPIs.\n\n#### **Conclusion**\nHaving a well-architected, sustainable workload is a continuous process. This blog post brings you Amazon Web Services announcements from the sustainability perspective. I encourage you to review your workload and find out which of these announcements can be adopted in your workload.\n\n**Ready to get started?** I encourage you to check out on our [ What’s New blog ](https://aws.amazon.com/new/) for announcements and check them under a sustainability point of view, to identify if they help you improve and meet your sustainability goals.\n\n**Looking for more architecture content?** [Amazon Web Services Architecture Center ](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/) provides reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, [Well-Architected](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/) best practices, patterns, icons, and more!\n\n#### **Related information**\n- Watch the [Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2021 Breakout Sessions](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2yQDdvlhXf-rfmFeU9QTAd00ZvacshgM) – Sustainability\n- Other blog posts on [architecting for sustainability](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/sustainability/)\n- [Amazon Web Services Architecture Monthly magazine, Sustainability issue, August 2021](https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture-monthly/AWS-Architecture-Monthly-August-2021.pdf)\n\n\n\n\n**Ernesto Bethencourt Plaz**\nErnesto is a Solutions Architect in Iberia, working with Public Sector customers, helping them take advantage of the cloud to deliver modern services to citizens and internal users. Previous to joining Amazon Web Services, he worked as a Product Owner for a security solution in the Banking Sector and before that, a diverse IT roles experience in finance and consulting firms.\n","render":"<p>At our recent annual <a href=\\"https://reinvent.awsevents.com/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services re:Invent</a>2021 conference, we had important announcements regarding sustainability, including the new <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/sustainability-pillar.html\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sustainability Pillar</a> for <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Well-Architected Framework</a> and the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-customer-carbon-footprint-tool/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services Customer Carbon Footprint</a> Tool.</p>\\n<p>In this blog post, I highlight services and features from these announcements to help you design and optimize your Amazon Web Services workloads from a sustainability perspective.</p>\n<h4><a id=\\"Architecting_for_sustainability_basics_4\\"></a><strong>Architecting for sustainability basics</strong></h4>\\n<p>Environmental sustainability <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/the-shared-responsibility-model.html\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> is a shared responsibility</a> between customers and Amazon Web Services. We maintain sustainability of the cloud by delivering efficient, shared infrastructure. As a customer, you maintain sustainability in the cloud. This means you optimize your workload to efficiently use resources.</p>\\n<p><img src=\\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/3043e4c3a765449b83ed133a32216fa5_image.png\\" alt=\\"image.png\\" /></p>\n<p>Figure 1. Shared responsibility model for sustainability</p>\n<p>The Sustainability Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework provides the following <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/design-principles-for-sustainability-in-the-cloud.html\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> design principles</a> that you can use to optimize your workload for sustainability in the cloud:</p>\\n<ul>\\n<li>Understand your impact.</li>\n<li>Establish sustainability goals.</li>\n<li>Maximize utilization.</li>\n<li>Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings.</li>\n<li>Use managed services.</li>\n<li>Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads.</li>\n</ul>\\n<p>In the next sections, I share new services and service features that were announced at re:Invent 2021 that are related to these design principles and provide recommendations on how they can help you design and operate your workloads more sustainably.</p>\n<h4><a id=\\"Understand_your_impact_22\\"></a><strong>Understand your impact</strong></h4>\\n<p>Measure the environmental impact of your workloads and propose optimizations to meet your sustainability goals:</p>\n<ul>\\n<li>Understand your workload’s environmental impact with new <a href=\\"http://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Compute Optimizer</a> <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-compute-optimizer-resource-efficiency-metrics/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> resource efficiency metrics</a> metrics and <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-compute-optimizer-enhanced-infrastructure-metrics-ec2-instances/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">enhanced metrics</a>.</li>\\n<li>Optimize scaling decisions and reduce idle resources associated with domain controllers with <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directory-service/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Directory</a> <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directory-service/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Service for Microsoft Active Directory</a> and <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-managed-microsoft-ad-amazon-cloudwatch/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">information</a>in <a href=\\"http://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon CloudWatch</a>.</li>\\n<li>Use the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-insights-preview/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> SQL-based metrics query engine</a> to simplify gathering metrics to find optimization opportunities with CloudWatch.</li>\\n</ul>\n<h4><a id=\\"Maximize_utilization_29\\"></a><strong>Maximize utilization</strong></h4>\\n<p>Reduce the total energy required to power your workloads by right-sizing your workloads to ensure high utilization and eliminating or minimizing idle resources.</p>\n<p><em><strong>Optimize your storage</strong></em></p>\n<ul>\\n<li>Use new storage tiers in [Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/1</li>\n<li>1/retention-ebs-snapshots-75-amazon-archive-tier/), <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-timestream-scheduled-queries-multi-measure-records-magnetic-storage-writes/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Timestream</a>, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-sitewise-storage-tiers-industrial-data/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services IoT SiteWise</a>, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-dynamodb-standard-infrequent-access-table-class/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon DynamoDB</a>, and [Amazon ElastiCache for Redis](Amazon ElastiCache for Redis) to <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/use-technologies-that-best-support-data-access-and-storage-patterns.html\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> move data to “colder” tiers</a>.</li>\\n<li>Support new storage access patterns with the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-glacier-instant-retrieval-storage-class/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Glacier Instant Retrieval</a> and <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/s3-intelligent-tiering-archive-instant-access-tier/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access</a></li>\\n<li>Delete data that you don’t need by <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/use-lifecycle-policies-to-delete-unnecessary-data.html\\" target=\\"_blank\\">using lifecycle policies</a> with fine-grained controls that use <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-lifecycle-storage-cost-savings/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> new actions and filters</a>.</li>\\n<li>Use <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lake-formation-governed-tables-storage-security/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> storage optimization</a> for <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Lake Formation</a> to reduce and optimize your storage with its garbage collection and data compaction features.</li>\\n</ul>\n<p><em><strong>Optimize data movement</strong></em><br />\\nMoving data across networks can contribute to energy consumption and your overall costs. Optimizing networks and data movement can save energy and costs. Optimize the way you access and<a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/minimize-data-movement-across-networks.html\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> move data across networks </a> by:</p>\\n<ul>\\n<li>Use <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-direct-connect-sitelink/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Direct Connect SiteLink</a> to connect an on-premises network directly through the Amazon Web Services global network. This helps your data travel more efficiently (across the shortest path) rather than using public network.</li>\\n<li>Migrate tape backups to the cloud with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-snow-family-offline-tape-data-migration-capability/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services Snow Family offline tape data migration</a>. This helps you eliminate physical tapes and store your virtual tapes in the cloud with cold storage.</li>\\n<li>Automakers that build connected cars generate loads of data. Use <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-iot-fleetwise-transferring-vehicle-data-cloud/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services IoT FleetWise</a> to reduce the amount of unnecessary data transferred to the cloud.</li>\\n</ul>\n<p><em><strong>Optimize your processing</strong></em><br />\\nMinimize the resources you use and increase the utilization of resources you use to run your workloads:</p>\n<ul>\\n<li>Optimize the resources you use for your machine learning (ML) models with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon SageMaker </a> <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-inference-recommender/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Inference Recommender</a>.</li>\\n<li>Reduce<a href=\\"http://aws.amazon.com/lambda\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services Lambda</a> function executions with the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lambda-event-filtering-amazon-sqs-dynamodb-kinesis-sources/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> new event filtering</a> for <a href=\\"http://aws.amazon.com/sqs\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS),</a>, DynamoDB, and <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Kinesis</a>.</li>\\n<li>Minimize the amount of data that needs to be accessed by consumer clusters and provision flexible compute resources in <a href=\\"http://aws.amazon.com/redshift\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Redshift</a>t with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/enhancements-amazon-redshift/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> new performance enhancements</a>.</li>\\n<li>Use the open-source Kubernetes cluster auto scaling project, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-karpenter-v0-5/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Karpenter</a>, to automatically adjust cluster capacity and meet actual demand.</li>\\n</ul>\n<h4><a id=\\"Anticipate_and_adopt_new_more_efficient_hardware_and_software_offerings_54\\"></a><strong>Anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings</strong></h4>\\n<p>Rapid adoption of new, more efficient technologies helps you reduce the impact of your workloads.</p>\n<p><em><strong>Adopt more efficient instances</strong></em></p>\n<ul>\\n<li>Deploy your workloads on newer, price-performant hardware with the latest<a href=\\"http://aws.amazon.com/ec2\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> instance families from partner-based chips like the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-r6i-instances/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Intel-based R6i</a>, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-m6a-instances/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">AMD EPYC-based M6a</a>, and<a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-macos/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Mac-based M1</a></li>\\n<li>Use new Amazon Web Services-built chip instances based in <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Graviton2</a>like <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-g5g-instances-aws-graviton2-processors/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> G5g</a>, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-im4gn-is4gen-aws-graviton2/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Im4gn and Is4gen </a> for more energy-efficient instances.</li>\\n<li>Deploy the latest generation of custom-designed Amazon Web Services Graviton3-based instances:<a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-c7g-instances-aws-graviton3-processors/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">C7g</a>. These instances offer the same performance and use 60% less energy than comparable EC2 instances.</li>\\n<li>Gain efficiency with the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/trainium/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Trainium </a>ML chip <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-trn1-instances/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Trn1</a>.</li>\\n<li>Use managed services with Amazon Web Services Graviton2-based chips like Amazon Web Services Fargate for <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-fargate-amazon-ecs-aws-graviton2-processors/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS),</a>, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-graviton2-based-instances-amazon-neptune/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Neptune</a>, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-elasticache-supports-t4g-graviton2-based-instances/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">ElastiCache</a>, and <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/elastic-beanstalk-aws-graviton-ec2/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk</a>, which are more energy efficient than comparable EC2 instances.</li>\\n<li>Right-size the on-premises Amazon Web Services workloads that you run with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-outposts-form-factors/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">smaller Amazon Web Services Outposts form factors</a> form factors.</li>\\n<li>For workloads that need bare metal instances, use more efficient hardware with the<a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances</a></li>\\n</ul>\n<p><em><strong>Use more efficient software offerings</strong></em></p>\n<ul>\\n<li>Use the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-lustre-file-systems/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre</a> to reduce storage space consumption and make use of more energy-efficient underlying hardware.</li>\\n<li>Minimize data movement with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ecr-cache-repositories/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> pull-through cache repositories </a> in <a href=\\"http://aws.amazon.com/ecr/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)</a>.</li>\\n<li>Accelerate deep learning model training by using GPU instances more efficiently with<a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-training-compiler-dl-model-training-50/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler</a>.</li>\\n<li>Improve query performance in Amazon Redshift with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-redshift-preview-automated-materialized-view/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Automated Materialized Views</a>.</li>\\n<li>Reduce self-managed resources with intra-Region peering for<a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-transit-gateway-intra-region-cloud-network/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">AWS Transit Gateway</a>.</li>\\n<li>Build event-driven applications based on changes to the data you store in Amazon S3 to be optimized, flexible, and scalable with Amazon Web Services serverless offerings and use advanced filtering and routing capabilities to send events to 18 targets by integrating <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-event-notifications-amazon-eventbridge-build-advanced-serverless-applications/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon S3 Event Notifications and Amazon EventBridge</a>.</li>\\n<li>Use <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-s3-event-notifications-s3-lifecycle-intelligent-tiering-object-tags-object-access-control-lists/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">new Amazon S3 Event Notifications</a> to build event-driven applications and optimize resource efficiency of your workloads.</li>\\n<li>Simplify operations and retire infrastructure you use to provide remote access to Windows instances with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-single-sign-on-one-click-login-ec2-windows/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">one-click login with Amazon Web Services Single Sign-On</a>or <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-systems-manager-console-windows-instances-security/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services System Manager Fleet Manager console-based access</a>.</li>\\n<li>Decrease SMS-related usage when you test your campaigns in <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Pinpoint</a> with the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-pinpoint-sms-simulator-feature/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">SMS simulator</a>.</li>\\n</ul>\n<h4><a id=\\"Use_managed_services_78\\"></a><strong>Use managed services</strong></h4>\\n<p>We launched several managed services that <a href=\\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/use-managed-services.html\\" target=\\"_blank\\">shift the responsibility of sustainability </a>optimization to Amazon Web Services:</p>\\n<ul>\\n<li><strong>Analytics</strong>: <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-redshift-serverless/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon RedShift Serverless</a>, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-msk-serverless-public-preview/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Serverless</a>, [Amazon EMR](https://aws.amazon.com/cn/emr/?trk=cndc-detail) Serverless, and<a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-on-demand/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand</a>. Amazon Web Services managed services are scalable, have high average utilization of resources, and are optimized for sustainability.</li>\\n<li><strong>ML</strong>: <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/amazon-sagemaker-serverless-inference/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference </a> is ideal for applications with intermittent or unpredictable traffic.</li>\\n<li><strong>Storage</strong>: <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-fsx-openzfs/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon FSx for OpenZFS </a> is a fully managed file system that replaces ZFS and other on-premises Linux-based file servers.</li>\\n<li><strong>End-user compute</strong>: <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-workspaces-introduces-amazon-workspaces-web/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Workspaces Web </a> and <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-appstream-2-0-launches-elastic-fleets-serverless-fleet-type/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Appstream2 Elastic (serverless) fleets</a> help reduce idle resources.</li>\\n<li><strong>Managed backup options</strong>: <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/backup/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Backup</a> for <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-backup-amazon-s3-backup/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon S3</a>and <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-dynamodb-requirements-aws-backup/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> DynamoDB</a> automate backup retention and deletion.</li>\\n<li>Build and manage your wide area network (WAN) with [ Amazon Web Services Cloud WAN](Amazon Web Services Cloud WAN).</li>\n<li><strong>Migrate and modernize your workload</strong> with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/introducing-aws-mainframe-modernization/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Mainframe Modernization</a>, which helps move on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed and highly available runtime environment on Amazon Web Services.</li>\\n<li><strong>Create digital twins of real-world systems</strong> with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/introducing-aws-iot-twinmaker/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services IoT TwinMaker</a>.</li>\\n<li><strong>Publish and subscribe to third-party APIs</strong> using a managed service with <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-data-exchange-for-apis/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon Web Services Data Exchange for APIs</a>.</li>\\n</ul>\n<h4><a id=\\"Reduce_the_downstream_impact_of_your_cloud_workloads_91\\"></a><strong>Reduce the downstream impact of your cloud workloads</strong></h4>\\n<ul>\\n<li>Use the <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-sdk-rust-developer-preview/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Rust SDK </a> for the native <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-rust/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> energy efficiency gains of the Rust</a> programming language.</li>\\n<li>Use<a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-cloudwatch-rum-applications-client-side-performance/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> Amazon CloudWatch RUM</a> to understand the performance of your application and use that information to make it more efficient.</li>\\n<li>Review your carbon emissions with the new Amazon Web Services Customer Carbon Footprint Tool. This helps you define your sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs), optimize your workloads for sustainability, and improve your KPIs.</li>\n</ul>\\n<h4><a id=\\"Conclusion_96\\"></a><strong>Conclusion</strong></h4>\\n<p>Having a well-architected, sustainable workload is a continuous process. This blog post brings you Amazon Web Services announcements from the sustainability perspective. I encourage you to review your workload and find out which of these announcements can be adopted in your workload.</p>\n<p><strong>Ready to get started?</strong> I encourage you to check out on our <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/new/\\" target=\\"_blank\\"> What’s New blog </a> for announcements and check them under a sustainability point of view, to identify if they help you improve and meet your sustainability goals.</p>\\n<p><strong>Looking for more architecture content?</strong> <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Architecture Center </a> provides reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Well-Architected</a> best practices, patterns, icons, and more!</p>\\n<h4><a id=\\"Related_information_103\\"></a><strong>Related information</strong></h4>\\n<ul>\\n<li>Watch the <a href=\\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2yQDdvlhXf-rfmFeU9QTAd00ZvacshgM\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2021 Breakout Sessions</a> – Sustainability</li>\\n<li>Other blog posts on <a href=\\"https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/sustainability/\\" target=\\"_blank\\">architecting for sustainability</a></li>\\n<li><a href=\\"https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture-monthly/AWS-Architecture-Monthly-August-2021.pdf\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Amazon Web Services Architecture Monthly magazine, Sustainability issue, August 2021</a></li>\\n</ul>\n<p><img src=\\"https://dev-media.amazoncloud.cn/9ea09bc0950047adaa691777b12799e4_image.png\\" alt=\\"image.png\\" /></p>\n<p><strong>Ernesto Bethencourt Plaz</strong><br />\\nErnesto is a Solutions Architect in Iberia, working with Public Sector customers, helping them take advantage of the cloud to deliver modern services to citizens and internal users. Previous to joining Amazon Web Services, he worked as a Product Owner for a security solution in the Banking Sector and before that, a diverse IT roles experience in finance and consulting firms.</p>\n"}