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Author: Katja Philipp
Katja Philipp is a Senior Prototyping Architect at Amazon Web Services. She works with customers to build innovative prototypes using AI, ML, and generative AI technologies that solve real business challenges. Katja is passionate about sustainability, serverless and how technology can be leveraged to solve current challenges for a better future.
Export and visualize carbon emissions data from your AWS accounts
In April 2025, AWS added carbon emissions data to AWS Data Exports. This managed feature introduces the ability to automatically export carbon emissions data with AWS Account and AWS Region granularity on a monthly basis to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). When using AWS Organizations, the carbon emissions export delivers data for all member accounts linked to your management account. This blog post explains how to configure the recurring delivery of carbon emissions data to Amazon S3 and visualize the exported data in the sustainability-proxy-metrics dashboard of the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CID). Utilizing Data Exports and the CID, you can track emissions across more than one AWS organization, with the ability to build custom visualizations and drill down to member account-level granularity.
Measure and track cloud efficiency with sustainability proxy metrics, Part II: Establish a metrics pipeline
This blog post series provides an overview on how to establish a sustainability proxy metrics showback mechanism for teams wanting to optimize their AWS usage for sustainability. In Part I, we’ve covered the motivation for sustainability proxy metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). We explained the concept of usage based metrics, normalization and inclusion of […]
Measure and track cloud efficiency with sustainability proxy metrics, Part I: What are proxy metrics?
Sustainability has become an important decision-making factor for customers, employees, regulators, investors, and partners. Customers have started their journey towards a sustainable business and operations. If you’re building, deploying, and maintaining IT infrastructure, reducing its environmental impact is an important step in reaching company-wide sustainability goals. Thus, sustainability has become a non-functional requirement in modern […]