AWS Global Infrastructure and Sustainability Blog
Category: Technical How-to
Integrate AWS carbon and water data into your ESG reporting
Companies face increasing pressure to measure and reduce their environmental footprint. They measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol across three scopes: Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased energy), and Scope 3 (supply chain emissions). AWS is an upstream supplier of its customers. Emissions associated […]
Advancing Water Stewardship at AWS: New Water Withdrawals Data Now Available in the AWS Sustainability Console
Advancing Water Stewardship at AWS: New Water Withdrawals Data Now Available in the AWS Sustainability Console At Amazon, we know that water is a precious resource. In 2022, AWS announced the commitment to being water positive by 2030. That means we’ll return more water to communities and the environment than we use in our data […]
How to use Sustainability Insights Framework on AWS
Traditionally, organizations have faced a complex, labor-intensive, and error-prone process of manually tracking their carbon footprint and generating climate-related reports. The process typically involves employees spending countless hours gathering data from disparate sources including utility bills, fuel consumption records, procurement documents, travel receipts, and facility operations logs. Large teams have to manually input this data […]


