Category: Technical How-to

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 […]

Advancing Water Stewardship at AWS: New Water Withdrawals Data Now Available in the AWS Sustainability Console At Amazon, we know that water is a precious resource. In 2022, AWS announced the commitment to being water positive by 2030. That means we’ll return more water to communities and the environment than we use in our data […]

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 […]