Guidance for Carbon Accounting on AWS
Overview
How it works
These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.
Well-Architected Pillars
The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.
Operational Excellence
Monitor your organization's operational health and notify operators of faults with Amazon CloudWatch, where you can customize metrics, alarms, and dashboards. For more on how to gain insights into your operations, see the Guidance for Sustainability Insights Framework on AWS.
Read the Operational Excellence whitepaperSecurity
Resources deployed by this Guidance are protected by AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and principles. CloudFront allows customers to enable TLS to secure data in transit and also makes use of AWS WAF for additional protection. User authentication is managed through Amazon Cognito, and all APIs use a Cognito authorizer. Data is protected through access controls implemented by IAM and Amazon S3 bucket policies.
The Guidance for Sustainability Insights Framework on AWS provides in-depth, best-practices for architecting secure workloads on AWS.
Reliability
To help your workloads perform their intended function correctly and consistently, this Guidance uses a serverless web application that scales automatically and is automatically deployed across multiple Availability Zones. The architecture is managed through an AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).
Implementing reliable workloads for carbon footprint tracking is detailed further in the Guidance for Sustainability Insights Framework on AWS.
Performance Efficiency
CloudFront, a serverless application that caches content, decreases latency to the end user.
The Guidance for Sustainability Insights Framework on AWShas more on the efficient use of computing resources.
Cost Optimization
With the serverless web application this Guidance uses, you only pay for what you use. Caching through CloudFront reduces data transfer and access costs for Amazon S3.
For the cost implications of the Sustainability Insights Framework of this Guidance, please refer to theGuidance for Sustainability Insights Framework on AWS.
Sustainability
All computing resources in this Guidance run through AWS Lambda that does not require any hardware provisioning when not in use.
Reducing your total resources is further detailed in the Guidance for Sustainability Insights Framework on AWS.
Disclaimer
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