Why Sustainability OF The Cloud Is Important To Serverless

Sheen Brisals
7 min readMay 5, 2022

In Part I: Think Sustainability While Developing Serverless Applications, we discussed why sustainability is applicable in serverless developments.

In Part II: How To Build Sustainable Serverless Applications, we looked at the longevity of applications and ways to sustain them.

In Part III: How To Practice Sustainable Development Processes In Serverless!, the focus was on the development processes that help build the solutions.

In this Part IV, we switch our attention to the cloud and understand the shared responsibilities between the cloud provider and service consumers.

Recap: The Serverless Sustainability Triangle

The Sustainability Triangle shows how the three aspects of sustainability in serverless development are interrelated.

The Serverless Sustainability Triangle. Source Author.

Serverless Backstage Tour

Backstage tours are famous in theater districts. They are eye-openers to see how the elegance of a play gets formed and delivered. The costumes, the sets, the lighting, the sound, and others give us an insight into what goes…

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Sheen Brisals

Co-author of Serverless Development on AWS (O'Reilly, 2024) | Engineer. Architect. Leader. Writer. Speaker. AWS Serverless Hero.