Category: Sustainability

In April 2025, AWS added carbon emissions data to AWS Data Exports. This managed feature introduces the ability to automatically export carbon emissions data with AWS Account and AWS Region granularity on a monthly basis to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). When using AWS Organizations, the carbon emissions export delivers data for all member accounts linked to your management account. This blog post explains how to configure the recurring delivery of carbon emissions data to Amazon S3 and visualize the exported data in the sustainability-proxy-metrics dashboard of the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CID). Utilizing Data Exports and the CID, you can track emissions across more than one AWS organization, with the ability to build custom visualizations and drill down to member account-level granularity.

Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT), launched in 2022, is a tool that helps customers track, measure, and review the carbon emissions generated from their AWS usage. The CCFT accounts for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, as defined in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, covering the full range of AWS products, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and more. The emissions are provided as Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e). Today, we are publishing three updates as part of our ongoing process to enhance the CCFT: 1) easier access to carbon emissions data through the Billing and Cost Management Data Exports service, 2) more granular carbon data at the AWS Region level, and 3) updated, independently-verified methodology.

This blog post series provides an overview on how to establish a sustainability proxy metrics showback mechanism for teams wanting to optimize their AWS usage for sustainability. In Part I, we’ve covered the motivation for sustainability proxy metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). We explained the concept of usage based metrics, normalization and inclusion of […]

Sustainability has become an important decision-making factor for customers, employees, regulators, investors, and partners. Customers have started their journey towards a sustainable business and operations. If you’re building, deploying, and maintaining IT infrastructure, reducing its environmental impact is an important step in reaching company-wide sustainability goals. Thus, sustainability has become a non-functional requirement in modern […]

The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now supports the CSV download option, giving you the ability to review carbon footprint data in detail and ingest the data into other reporting systems for further analysis and information sharing. It has also lowered the carbon reporting threshold from one decimal place to three decimal places, which means the carbon emission data is now available at 0.00X metric tons of CO2e, from the previous 0.X metric tons of CO2e.

When we talk about the Plan and Evaluate use case in the context of Cloud Financial Management, we refer to several use cases that all contribute to understanding and evaluating the economic performance of your IT investment, in alignment with your specific business priorities. We focus on the tools, resources, and best practices you can use […]