Category: Best Practices

AWS Outposts extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises locations for workloads that require low latency, local data processing, or data residency. In April 2025, we announced the general availability of second-generation AWS Outposts. If you’re running workloads on first-generation AWS Outposts, we recommend developing a structured migration strategy to move to second-generation. […]

Companies face increasing pressure to measure and reduce their environmental footprint. They measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol across three scopes: Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased energy), and Scope 3 (supply chain emissions). AWS is an upstream supplier of its customers. Emissions associated […]

Traditionally, organizations have faced a complex, labor-intensive, and error-prone process of manually tracking their carbon footprint and generating climate-related reports. The process typically involves employees spending countless hours gathering data from disparate sources including utility bills, fuel consumption records, procurement documents, travel receipts, and facility operations logs. Large teams have to manually input this data […]

As global regulations for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting continue to grow, corporations are facing increased pressure to organize and disclose their sustainability performance. However, many companies are struggling to effectively manage their ESG data, which puts meeting these disclosure requirements at risk. Demand for transparent and accurate ESG reporting is being driven by stakeholders, […]

As the world becomes increasingly digitalized, enterprises are facing a complex challenge – balancing the need for energy-intensive IT infrastructure to drive digital transformation with environmental sustainability priorities. This competing demand has put data center energy consumption and carbon emissions firmly in the spotlight. According to a new IDC InfoBrief report, Energy and Carbon Efficiency […]