Sustainability
Track your carbon footprint, reduce energy use, and build more sustainable operations
Sustainability in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is focused on efficiency and continuous innovation across our global infrastructure, as we continue on our path to powering our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 - five years ahead of our original 2030 commitment.
Why AWS for Industrial sustainability
Reducing energy use is a top objective for industrial companies as it reduces cost, helps meet regulatory requirements, and preserves our natural resources.
Amazon deeply understands sustainability and offers the expertise to help industrial companies on their journey to meet their sustainability goals. A recent study estimates running optimized workloads on AWS’s infrastructure can reduce carbon footprint by up to 99%. Beyond the immediate benefits, AWS also delivers services and solutions with a highly efficient infrastructure to help ingest, analyze, and manage disparate scope 1-3 sustainability data to better track your carbon footprint, and identify energy conservation and waste reduction opportunities.
Benefits
Explore the benefits of AWS Industrial Sustainability
Improve sustainability
A study released by Accenture and AWS estimates running optimized workloads on AWS’s infrastructure is up to 4.1 times more efficient than the typical on-premises data center.
Better manage sustainability data
Ingest, analyze, and manage sustainability data to build solutions like carbon tracking, energy conservation and waste reduction.
Lower cost and reduce waste
Identify areas for process improvement and mitigate consumption of Water, Air, Gas, Electricity, and Steam.
Sustainability Solutions
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Sustainability Solutions and use cases
Product Carbon Footprint
Automate carbon accounting and improve sustainability efforts. These solutions help companies manage carbon accounting, reduce costs of goods sold, and lower their PCF. Using these solutions can also facilitate increased transparency for regulators and customers.
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Natural Resources & Environmental Management
Enable near real-time monitoring and data collection—from watersheds, forests, oceans, the atmosphere, and more—to detect threats and gain insights using remote sensing, and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to enable environmental management at scale.
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Energy Use Optimization
Track energy use and carbon footprint, implement targeted efficiency measures, and reduce overall energy and emissions while driving sustainable cost reductions.
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Net-Zero Carbon by 2040
As part of Amazon’s mission to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, we are committed to building a sustainable business for our employees, customers, and communities. We are driving toward a net-zero carbon future where the people that support our entire value chain are treated with dignity and respect.
Innovate with key industry partners
CoolPlanet
CoolPlanetOS offers a powerful decarbonization management system that enables your organization to measure, manage and reduce carbon emissions at scale and gain greater visibility and control of your emissions and energy.
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Palantir
Palantir Foundry empowers institutions of varying technical maturity to harness data throughout their operations and power critical decisions. Foundry provides seamless data management, analysis, and operational workflows atop a secure, extensible platform.Learn more about Palantir »
TensorIoT
TensorIoT was founded on the instinct that the majority of 'compute' is moving to the edge and all 'things' are becoming smarter. The company is creating solutions to simplify the way enterprises incorporate Intelligent Edge Computing devices and their data into their day-to day-operations.Learn more about TensorIoT »
Resources
See related technical guides, solution briefs, blogs, and much more.
AWS Clean Energy Accelerator 2.0
Amazon’s innovation and resources made available to leading start-ups changing the world. If there had been any doubt in the past, developments over the last couple of years have demonstrated how clean energy has become critical from both a policy and innovation lens.
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New Climate Next Documentary Episode
Fossil fuels have powered transportation and industry since the Industrial Revolution. To combat climate change, the pursuit of cleaner, cheaper, and more sustainable forms of energy has become essential. In episode three of the four-part AWS documentary series Climate Next, the London-based energy tech pioneer Octopus Energy uses smart grid technology to support an all-renewable system generated by solar, wind, hydro, and energy storage.
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AWS AMER Summit Aug 2021
This session shares Amazon’s approach to innovation, culture, and mechanisms and our peculiar ways of making decisions at speed and scale. Hear how the customer, and Amazon’s customer obsession, can make anything possible, particularly in the area of sustainability and climate change. This session provides an overview of The Climate Pledge and Amazon’s commitment to sustainability and explores how we can help make the changes that are so urgently required in business and society to address some of the most pressing environmental issues.
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Technology Innovation Fuels Hope for Energy Transition
Climate change took on greater immediacy in early August when the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report projecting near-term climate change impacts, including extreme heat and rising sea levels, in every region of the world. The report also highlighted one piece of good news: Scientists feel more confident that reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will help us slow global warming.
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Using Data to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Environmental and economic concerns are pushing organizations to move faster in reimagining how they produce and use energy. Learn how intelligent systems speed the move to clean energy.
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