Sustainability

The sustainability pillar of the SAP Well-Architected Lens focuses on incorporating environmental sustainability best practices into the architectural designs and operations of your SAP systems. Specifically, this involves designing your SAP systems to minimize negative environmental consequences. This minimization is accomplished by architecting your SAP systems and performing your SAP development in a manner that reduces energy consumption by the underlying AWS resources. After these steps, monitor your sustainability posture and opportunities for iterative improvement over time.  As always, review the overall AWS Well-Architected Framework Sustainability Pillar for recommendations that apply to all workloads, including SAP.

As a rule, the recommendations in the SAP Lens cost optimization pillar will result in a more sustainable architecture for SAP workloads, except as called out in the following sections. To avoid duplication of recommendations, we advise that you review that pillar in addition to the best practices contained in this one.