# Sustainability The sustainability pillar provides you with the discipline to address the long-term environmental, economic, and societal impact of your business activities. You can find extensive prescriptive guidance on your implementation's sustainability in the [Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar whitepaper](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/sustainability-pillar/sustainability-pillar.html). Manufacturing organizations must focus on sustainability within their design, production processes and supply chain operations to reduce their impact on the environment and to encourage sustainable practices. Focusing on these areas helps manufacturers adapt their operations to industry sustainability best practices, adopt new environmentally friendly technologies and materials, and plan for the business impacts of potential future regulatory requirements related to environmental protection and resource conservation. **Topics** + [Design principles](design-principles-sus.md) + [Region selection](region-selection.md) + [Alignment to demand](alignment-to-demand.md) + [Data management](data-management.md) + [Hardware and services](hardware-and-services.md) + [Process and culture](process-and-culture.md)