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Build More Sustainable AWS Workloads with the Sustainability Scanner

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This article discusses the Sustainability Scanner, an open source tool designed to help customers create a more sustainable infrastructure on AWS by evaluating infrastructure code against a set of sustainability best practices and providing recommendations for improvements.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • The shared responsibility of sustainability between AWS and customers
  • Sustainability as a non-functional requirement for cloud applications
  • The motivation behind the Sustainability Scanner and its benefits
  • How to use the Sustainability Scanner locally and as part of a CI/CD pipeline
  • The underlying architecture and workflow of the Sustainability Scanner
  • How to customize and extend the rules used by the Sustainability Scanner
  • Conclusion: Encourages readers to test their infrastructure's sustainability using the open source Sustainability Scanner tool


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