Design principles

Reduce the amount of energy or resources required to run edge services: Reduce or remove the need for customers to upgrade edge devices. Test using device farms to understand expected impact and test with customers to understand the actual impact from using your services.

Adopt more efficient cloud hardware and managed services offerings: Sharing services across a broad customer base helps maximize resource utilization, which reduces the amount of infrastructure needed to support cloud workloads. Use managed services to help minimize your workload impact.

Make data generated by edge devices configurable to optimize storage, retention, and transfer.

Do maximum processing of data at the edge, if possible, to reduce data transfer volume and unnecessary storage in the cloud.

Configure when and what data moves to the cloud for processing to conserve power and network bandwidth.

Reduce the number of connections from the edge to the cloud.  

Understand how you are contributing to the sustainability goals of the organization.

Understand sustainability is not a one time thing, it must be reviewed against changing guidelines from within and outside the organization.