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Sustainability in AWS Cloud

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Time Travelling

1880s

1950

1980s

Now

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CO2 emissions

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IT CO2 Emission

  • Around 3% of total emission
  • Mostly data centers
  • “Cheap hardware”
  • Super Mario vs GTA

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Coop

  • coop.co.uk
  • OneWeb team

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Coop

  • “What can we do about the sustainability?”

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AWS Well-Architect

  • Security 
  • Reliability
  • Operational excellence
  • Performance efficiency
  • Cost optimisation
  • Sustainability

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Our Goals

  • Optimise the architecture for sustainability
  • Develop sustainability metrics

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AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool�

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AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool�

  • Emission savings from AWS cloud infrastructure efficiencies
  • Emission savings from AWS purchase of renewable energy

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  • But how do we optimise our infrastructure for sustainability?

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Sustainability Proxy Metrics

  • Complement AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
  • Look at the efficiency and usage
  • Cost is not a sufficient metric
  • Network, storage and compute metrics

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Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework

  • Ready-made CloudFormation templates
  • Cost Intelligence Dashboard, Cost Anomaly Dashboard, Sustainability Proxy Metrics Dashboard…

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Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework - architecture

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Sustainability Proxy Metrics Dashboard

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Sustainability Proxy Metrics Dashboard

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Sustainability Proxy Metrics Dashboard

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How to optimize

  • Right-sizing
  • (Re)architecting

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How to optimize compute resources

  • Use EC2 spot instances (unused EC2)
  • Autoscaling
  • Adopt Graviton instances
  • Go serverless

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How to optimize storage resources

  • Reduce unused storage
  • Archive rarely used data

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How to optimize network resources

  • Use CDN
  • Use private network transfer
  • Use VPC endpoints (DynamoDB, S3)

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Estimating CO2 emissions

  • Cloud Carbon Footprint – open source tool
  • Web app that estimates CO2 of your cloud account

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Cloud Carbon Footprint

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Cloud Carbon Footprint

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Cloud Carbon Footprint

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Cloud Carbon Footprint

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Cloud Carbon Footprint – architecture

  • React app + Node.js Express api
  • Deployed sustainably with S3 and AWS lambda

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Cloud Carbon Footprint – next steps

  • Plug in all Coop AWS accounts
  • Plug in all Coop Azure accounts

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Sustainability in OneWeb – next steps

  • Do AWS Well-Architect review
  • Analyze Trusted Advisor findings
  • Keep optimizing

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Sustainability in IT

Engineers are standing on the shoulders of science

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Sustainability in AWS cloud

  • Thank you!

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