This IDC Vendor Profile provides a detailed overview of AWS's sustainability strategy and operationalization practices in the context of IDC's ESG/Sustainability framework
In this report, IDC dives deep into AWS's overall sustainability strategy and its readiness to cope with the growing demand for computing infrastructure that supports AI and generative AI workloads.
Read the report to:
- Learn about AWS’s sustainability work which includes enhancing energy efficiency, transitioning to carbon-free energy sources, reducing embodied carbon, using water responsibly, driving a circular economy, and enabling sustainability for customers.
- Gain further understanding of energy and carbon efficiency benefits of public cloud data centers over enterprise data centers.
- Discover why IDC believes there are more environmental benefits to be gained from running generative AI workloads in public cloud data centers than in enterprise data centers.
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IDC | AWS: Operationalizing Sustainability and Preparing Cloud for the Age of AI and GenAI, Vladimir Kroa, Bjoern Stengel, August 2024, IDC #US51535924. IDC and IDC Research are registered trademarks of IDC, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. IDC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. IDC research publications consist of the opinions of IDC's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. IDC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.