Hardware patterns

To be able to use instance types with the least environmental impact (from the Sustainability Pillar whitepaper), you have to ensure your containerized application is able to run on a variety of instance types and architectures. This can be done by creating images that support multi-architecture as described in the Cost Optimization Pillar whitepaper . For example, you can use a build service that supports multi-architecture build servers and combine them to a multi-architecture image using the CI pipeline (see Graviton workshop as an example of using AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodePipeline alongside Graviton and Amazon EKS). You can also use tools that generate multi-architecture images from a single Dockerfile, such as Docker Buildx.