Architecting in the Cloud for Sustainability
summary
Cloud architecture advice with concrete wins: choose among 26 regions and 84 availability zones or pick one of 310 AWS renewable projects to cut location-based carbon; move cron jobs off synchronized midnight runs and smooth peaks via queues or three-AZ capacity at ~66% utilization to reduce wasted idle servers; switch to Graviton up to 60% less energy for instances or Lambda, compress logs with zstd (30% better than gzip), and use SDK v3—75% smaller build artifact and package modularization; measure with Customer Carbon Footprint in Cost Explorer.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:04Sustainability Journey
- 5:51Best Practices for Sustainability
- 7:19Carbon reduction opportunity
- 8:59User behaviour patterns
- 9:13Optimize capacity for sustainability
- 11:03Optimize resilience for sustainability
- 11:48Architectural recommendation
- 12:18Software patterns
- 12:36Sustainable scheduling: Reduce peaks
- 14:45Asynchronous and Scheduled Jobs
- 15:394. Hardware patterns
- 16:54AWS Graviton2
- 18:39Data Classification and Lifecycle
- 21:58Development and Deployment
- 26:23Sustainability is a non-functional requirement
- 28:25Customer carbon footprint tool
- 30:59Summary
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