Amazon Sustainability Report 2025: AWS Summary

The Amazon Sustainability Report 2025 AWS Summary covers AWS’s progress across data center efficiency, renewable and carbon-free energy, water stewardship, circularity, biodiversity, responsible AI, human rights and responsible supply chains. It highlights how AWS is reducing the environmental footprint of cloud and AI infrastructure while scaling energy, water and resource-efficiency initiatives across its global data center operations.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)202621 Sept 2026

PublisherAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Year2026

RegionGlobal

FormatPDF, 7.7 MB

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Key Takeaways

AWS data centers achieved a global Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.14 in 2025, compared with a public cloud industry average of 1.25 and an on-premises enterprise data center average of 1.63.
Amazon matched 100% of the electricity consumed by its operations with renewable energy sources for the third consecutive year, supported by more than 700 carbon-free energy projects globally.
AWS reached 75% of the way toward its 2030 water-positive data center goal, while global Water Use Effectiveness improved to 0.12 L/kWh, 20% better than 2024 and 52% better than 2021.
In 2025, 40 AWS data centers incorporated lower-carbon building materials, including lower-carbon concrete, steel and aluminum, avoiding nearly 104,000 metric tons of embodied CO₂e compared with traditional materials.
AWS is expanding circular data center practices through repair, reuse and recycling; hardware reuse and resale programs have prevented 225,000 metric tons of CO₂e since 2020, while more than one million new hard-drive purchases have been avoided since 2023.