AWS adds Sustainability console
AWS launched a standalone Sustainability console that provides API access, configurable CSV exports and Scope 1–3 emissions data broken down by service and Region. The reporting is decoupled from billing permissions and has been framed by AWS leadership as treating carbon as an architectural metric. (infoq.com)
Amazon Web Services has split carbon reporting into its own Sustainability console, giving sustainability teams direct access without handing them billing permissions. (aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services announced the service on March 31, 2026, and said it is available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region while reporting emissions data across all commercial Amazon Web Services Regions. The console adds an application programming interface, software development kit access, and configurable comma-separated values exports. (aws.amazon.com) The new console shows Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions tied to Amazon Web Services usage, with breakdowns by Region and by service including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon Web Services said the underlying data and methodology are the same ones it previously used in the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool. (aws.amazon.com) Carbon accounting groups emissions into three buckets: direct emissions from owned operations, emissions from purchased energy, and indirect emissions from supply chains and other upstream activity. Amazon Web Services added Scope 3 data to the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool in October 2025, including categories such as information technology hardware, buildings, equipment, transportation, refrigerants, natural gas, and fuel-related activity. (aws.amazon.com) The practical change is who can use the data and how they can move it. The older Customer Carbon Footprint Tool lived inside Billing and Cost Management, and Amazon Web Services documentation says access could be limited in billing-transfer setups, while the new Sustainability console has its own permissions model. (docs.aws.amazon.com) (aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services also said customers can set the start month of their fiscal year, use updated visualizations, and pull data in bulk through three routes: direct comma-separated values downloads, the Sustainability application programming interface, or Amazon Simple Storage Service exports through Data Exports. (aws.amazon.com) (docs.aws.amazon.com) The service still runs on a monthly cadence, not real-time telemetry. Amazon Web Services says Sustainability publishes data for the previous usage month, and Customer Carbon Footprint Tool documentation says new monthly data is usually posted between the 15th and 21st of the following month. (docs.aws.amazon.com 1) (docs.aws.amazon.com 2) Amazon Web Services has been widening carbon reporting in steps since launching the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool in March 2022, then adding lower-threshold reporting and comma-separated values downloads in 2023 and Amazon Simple Storage Service-based Data Exports in April 2025. The new console pulls those reporting functions into a standalone product that Amazon Web Services executives describe as a way to treat carbon data like another engineering metric. (aws.amazon.com 1) (aws.amazon.com 2) (infoq.com)
