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

 You can find implementation guidance on implementation in the [Sustainability Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/sustainability-pillar.html) whitepaper. 

**Topics**
+ [Design principles](design-principles-sus.md)
+ [Region selection](gamesus-rs.md)
+ [Alignment to demand](gamesus-atd.md)
+ [Software and architecture](gamesus-sa.md)
+ [Data management](gamesus01.md)
+ [Hardware and services](gamesus02.md)
+ [Resources](resources-sus.md)