Building a Greener Cloud: The Role of an Architect for Sustainability in AWS

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AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that provides recommendations to optimize AWS infrastructure and resources. It analyzes an organization's AWS environment and provides guidance on cost optimization, security, performance, and fault tolerance. One of the lesser-known features of Trusted Advisor is its ability to help reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. It provides a list of best practices for reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

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Amazon CloudFront

One of the main ways that AWS CloudFront helps to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions is through the use of edge locations. Edge locations are data centers that are located in different parts of the world and are designed to cache content so that it can be delivered quickly to customers in that region. By using edge locations, AWS CloudFront reduces the need for content to travel long distances, which in turn reduces the amount of energy needed to deliver that content. This helps to lower the carbon footprint of companies that use AWS CloudFront, as less energy is needed to power the delivery of their content.

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AWS Auto Scaling

AWS Auto-Scaling is a service that automatically adjusts the capacity of an application in response to changing demand. It monitors resource utilization and scales resources up or down as necessary. By using AWS Auto Scaling, businesses can ensure that their applications are always running at optimal performance levels, without wasting resources or energy.

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