Hear from Greg Cockburn, Head of Hyperscale Cloud, as he discusses common gaps and quick tips to improve your organisations sustainability.
Hear from Greg Cockburn, Head of Hyperscale Cloud, as he discusses common gaps and quick tips to improve your organisations sustainability.
"Hi, my name is Greg Cockburn, and I'm the Head of Hyperscale Cloud here at AC3.
The Sustainability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on minimising the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads.
Key topics include: a shared responsibility model for sustainability, understanding impact, and maximising utilisation to minimise required resources and reduce downstream impacts.
In this pillar, organisations should understand their environmental impact, establish sustainability goals, maximise utilisation, anticipate and adopt new, more efficient hardware and software offerings, use managed services, and reduce the downstream impact of their cloud workloads.
The common gaps we see when performing reviews include mistaking this pillar as an extension of the cost optimisation pillar, and a focus on the impact to the immediate workload, instead of taking into account the broader impact to the environment.
My quick tip for you, is to broaden the scope of your architectural decisions and focus on the impact, not just of the workload, but how it impacts the network outside of AWS and the end-users network and devices.
Remember that Graviton is an excellent candidate for many components in your workload and provides more than just better price performance, but due to the design of the processor, requires less cooling, and less power, meaning an improved environmental impact.
If you would like us to perform a Well-Architected Review for your organisation, please reach out."
