Sustainability

The sustainability pillar provides design principles, operational guidance, best-practices, and improvement plans to meet sustainability targets for your AWS workloads. 

End user computing (EUC) plays a significant role in supporting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, ultimately contributing to sustainability. EUC in AWS includes Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Applications and allows employees to work from anywhere, anytime, and on many devices, thereby reducing the need for commuting and lowering carbon emissions. By promoting remote work, EUC also contributes to a more sustainable approach by reducing the need for physical office spaces and their associated energy consumption. 

You are encouraged to use the prescriptive guidance in the Sustainability Pillar whitepaper that applies to most workloads. The guidance that follows is specific to EUC workloads.