Sustainability Talks from AWS re:Invent 2023 ??? Post Event Update with Videos and Reviews

I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. The lack of progress on Scope 3 carbon reporting was picked up by Computer Weekly and the result was a statement from AWS that they are “working on it”. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. In their annual sustainability report in July 2023 AWS did update their list of sustainable regions to highlight 19 regions that are 100% sustainable — using an annual local market methodology for scope 1 and 2.

There hasn’t been any other visible progress, and most of the people I used to work with on sustainability have now left Amazon. For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. 

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