FSISUS03: How do you select a Region to optimize financial services workloads for sustainability?
Financial institutions must focus on sustainability within their cloud operating model to reduce their impact on the environment and to encourage sustainable practices. Focusing on these areas helps financial institutions adapt their workloads to financial services industry sustainability best practices, to adopt new environmentally friendly technology trends, and to plan for the business impacts of potential future regulatory requirements. The selection of the best Region might be driven by taking into account a variety of reasons.
FSISUS03-BP01 Choose Regions with services and hardware required for financial service organizations that maximize carbon footprint reductions
Prescriptive guidance
Recommended guidance for customer architecture includes:
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Develop a list of all services required by financial services workloads.
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Select a Region using guidance from FSISUS01-BP01.
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Develop a cross-reference of sustainable Regions chosen according to the services that are offered within each Region
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Prioritize Regions offering energy-efficient generative AI services and sustainable hardware for financial services AI workloads.
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Select Regions with renewable energy sources for computationally intensive generative AI model training.
