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Sustainability
Select Regions for your workload
Choose Region based on both business requirements and sustainability goals
Align cloud resources to your demand
Optimize geographic placement of workloads based on their networking requirements
Align SLAs with sustainability goals
Optimize geographic placement of workloads based on their networking requirements
Stop the creation and maintenance of unused assets
Optimize team member resources for activities performed
Implement buffering or throttling to flatten the demand curve
Take advantage of software and architecture patterns to support your sustainability goals
Optimize software and architecture for asynchronous and scheduled jobs
Remove or refactor workload components with low or no use
Optimize areas of code that consume the most time or resources
Optimize impact on devices and equipment
Use software patterns and architectures that best support data access and storage patterns
Remove unneeded or redundant data
Use technologies that support data access and storage patterns
Use policies to manage the lifecycle of your datasets
Use shared file systems or storage to access common data
Back up data only when difficult to recreate
Use elasticity and automation to expand block storage or file system
Minimize data movement across networks
Take advantage of data management policies and patterns to support your sustainability goals
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Select and use cloud hardware and services in your architecture to support your sustainability goals
Use the minimum amount of hardware to meet your needs
Use instance types with the least impact
Use Managed Services
Optimize your use of hardware-based compute accelerators
Implement organizational processes support your sustainability goals
Adopt methods that can rapidly introduce sustainability improvements
Keep your workload up-to-date
Increase utilization of build environments
Use managed device farms for testing
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Select Regions for your workload
Choose Region based on both business requirements and sustainability goals
Align cloud resources to your demand
Optimize geographic placement of workloads based on their networking requirements
Align SLAs with sustainability goals
Optimize geographic placement of workloads based on their networking requirements
Stop the creation and maintenance of unused assets
Optimize team member resources for activities performed
Implement buffering or throttling to flatten the demand curve
Take advantage of software and architecture patterns to support your sustainability goals
Optimize software and architecture for asynchronous and scheduled jobs
Remove or refactor workload components with low or no use
Optimize areas of code that consume the most time or resources
Optimize impact on devices and equipment
Use software patterns and architectures that best support data access and storage patterns
Remove unneeded or redundant data
Use technologies that support data access and storage patterns
Use policies to manage the lifecycle of your datasets
Use shared file systems or storage to access common data
Back up data only when difficult to recreate
Use elasticity and automation to expand block storage or file system
Minimize data movement across networks
Take advantage of data management policies and patterns to support your sustainability goals
Articles coming soon
Select and use cloud hardware and services in your architecture to support your sustainability goals
Use the minimum amount of hardware to meet your needs
Use instance types with the least impact
Use Managed Services
Optimize your use of hardware-based compute accelerators
Implement organizational processes support your sustainability goals
Adopt methods that can rapidly introduce sustainability improvements
Keep your workload up-to-date
Increase utilization of build environments
Use managed device farms for testing