4.5 Limit Usage of Additional Environments

Hosting & Infrastructure

Decommission or switch off additional environments, such as testing / Quality Assurance QA) / re-production and other such environments when they are not useful.

Criteria

• Unused Environments: Ensure no unused environment is available, balancing the cost of deploying an environment with the cost of keeping it online while unused.

Impact

Medium

Effort

Low

Benefits

• Environmental:
  Avoids consuming resources for unused services.
• Economic:
  Unused services should not be paid for, resulting in savings.

GRI

• materials: Low
• energy: Low
• water: Low
• emissions: Low

Example

• Website testing environments should not be automated but run on command.

Resources

• AWS WAF: SUS02-BP03
• [GPFEDS] 3.7 – Architecture (Optimized Testing) (PDF)
• [GR491] 3-8026 – Not In Use Equipment
• Toward sustainable software engineering
• United Nations [SDGS] Goal 6 (Water & Sanitation)
• United Nations [SDGS] Goal 7 (Sustainable Energy)

View the Guideline

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