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AWS Sustainability

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Why AWS Sustainability?

AWS is committed to innovating in every area of our global infrastructure to increase efficiency and minimize environmental impact. As we continue to expand our data center operations to support our customers’ growing needs with AI and cloud computing, we’re also innovating to increase efficiency and make progress toward Amazon’s commitment to net-zero carbon by 2040, all while maintaining the highest level of security. That journey won't be linear, but a big part of it will be circular. Our circular economy strategy rests on three core pillars: Design Better, Operate Longer, and Recover More.

A More Sustainable Infrastructure

AWS is committed to innovating in every area of our global infrastructure to increase efficiency and minimize environmental impact. AWS’s existing data centers support millions of active customers worldwide and are adapting to support increasingly higher power densities. When AWS builds data centers, we seek an optimal balance between energy and water use. AWS calculates PUE using the internationally-recognized principles of the International Organization for Standardization in line with our PUE Methodology.

The latest generation AWS data center design is projected to provide 12% more compute power, while improving availability and efficiency and power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating to 1.08. 

Benefits

AWS simplified the energy distribution to help reduce overall energy consumption while minimizing the risk of failures.

A flexible cooling design provides maximum performance and efficiency at the lowest cost, whether running traditional workloads or AI models. 

AWS will make more efficient use of the energy available, providing 12% more compute power per site.

A more efficient cooling system expected to reduce mechanical energy consumption by up to 46% compared to its previous design, without increasing water usage.

New data center components are projected to reduce embodied carbon in the concrete used by 35%.

Sustainability Solutions

Achieve sustainability goals across industries and use cases with a broad and flexible portfolio of AWS and partner solutions.

AWS Sustainability Expertise, Guidance, and Data

Invent for a more sustainable future with unparalleled access to guidance, expertise, and sustainability data.

AWS Solutions Library Guidance has prescriptive architectural diagrams, sample code, and technical content helping customers architect sustainably for sustainable outcomes.

AWS Data Exchange offers third-party data solutions for sustainability, making data easy to find and use. It includes data sets available via the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) which democratizes access to data with the goal of accelerating  sustainability research, innovation, and collaboration.

Guidance for Sustainability Data Management on AWS is a solution framework that provides best practices for data exchange, data governance, and data transformation to drive sustainability initiatives.

Customer Success

AWS helps customers across all sectors implement sustainability measures in their operations. Learn from AWS customers and begin adopting strategies to help your organization stay more efficient. View all case studies

  • Bosch

    Bosch Mobility Platform & Solutions Collaborates with AWS to Drive Innovation and Efficiency in Global Logistics

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    The Well-Architected Framework and AWS best practices helped us ensure operational excellence, reliability, security, and performance efficiency from the beginning.

    Luke Hugel, President and Regional Business Responsible - Bosch Mobility Platform & Solutions North America

  • Holcim

    Holcim reduces concrete delivery times to minimize wastage in line with its focus on sustainability

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    Being on time within minutes is a key ingredient for efficient and sustainable construction of the future. Understanding roads, road traffic, and navigation is a key element to making our operations more sustainable and efficient.

    Philip Leutiger, Chief Digital Officer, Holcim

  • Climate Pledge Arena

    How AWS helped Climate Pledge Arena with its sustainability goals

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    AWS’s serverless solutions have enabled us to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver to help to refine their methodology, automate data sharing with third parties, and integrate generative AI using Amazon Bedrock to optimize data input and summarize outcomes. For example, because CPA was able to access and analyze comprehensive data regarding transportation impacts, they were able to successfully work with the city to promote the use of public transportation to arena events to help lower the overall carbon footprint of attendees.

    David Johnsen, Chief Product Officer of FlexZero, (AWS Partner for Climate Pledge Arena)

Sustainability across Amazon and AWS

AWS is committed to reducing its environmental impact and continues to make progress in renewable energy, water stewardship, and circular economy initiatives.

We continue to invest in renewable energy while also finding additional sources of carbon-free energy that can both help power our operations and bring new sources of energy to the grid.

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AWS is committed to being water positive by 2030, and as of the end of 2023, is 41% of the way toward meeting its goal.

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Discover how we implement circular economy principles by giving our data center equipment a second life, contributing to a more sustainable future in cloud computing.

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