A well configured Cloud workload can have a 78% reduction in energy consumption and a 93% reduction in carbon emissions which can significantly improve your sustainability position. To achieve those goals requires some care and review to ensure cloud workloads are deployed and operating optimally and sustainably.

The AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Review is a 1 day review followed by an optional remediation undertaken by Telstra Purple to assess an agreed workload against the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architect Framework including: Operational Excellence. running and monitoring systems and continually improving processes and procedures.

Guiding Principles

The most recent sixth Sustainability pillar focusses on improvement of sustainability outcomes for your AWS workloads utilising AWS native tooling and industry sustainability principles:

Understand impact. Establish a baseline against which improvements may be made and measured.

Establish sustainability goals. Establishing a sustainability goal will help to balance the reduction initiatives against other competing concerns.

Maximize utilisation. There simply is no better way to reduce consumption than to migrate to cloud and optimise the utilisation to remove wastage form the workload.

Adopt new offerings. Cloud architectures are not static, continued investment in the cloud platforms will enable new more efficient services.

Use managed services. A good cloud managed services can take on the “continual improvement” aspect of optimisation by measuring and adjusting the running services to be more optimal.

Reduce the downstream impact. Being aware of, estimating and reducing the footprint of the customer consuming your service is also an important consideration to reduce overall impact.

Why Telstra Purple

Telstra has made a public commitment to improve sustainability both through direct activities and indirectly through our customers. Telstra's services business Telstra Purple is enabled and supported through our important relationship with AWS to improve the sustainability outcomes of our cloud customers. This Well Architected Sustainability Review is one such initiative that will ensure that customers who have taken that important step to the AWS cloud are realising the full economic and sustainable benefits of that investment.

Telstra Purple are an Advanced AWS Partner, a Well Architected Program member and a Managed Services Provider which puts us in a unique position help our customers make the most of the AWS cloud to help protect the environment for future generations.

Deliverables

Our experts orchestrate a solution that's purpose-built for your requirements.

AWS Well-Architected Single day Review has the following deliverables:

**Onsite Well-Architected Review workshop **Well-Architected Review presentation and report **Customer Actions report containing recommended remediation activities, effort estimates and priority.

AWS Well-Architected Review & Remediation has the following deliverables:

**Workshop on Customer Actions report **Implement Customer Actions **Implementation Roadmap

Qualifying remediations will be eligible for US$5,000 worth of AWS usage credits on your AWS account following successful remediation of issues by the Purple. *Learn more about our full portfolio of Cloud services at * https://purple.telstra.com/services