AWS Launches Sustainability Console with API Access and Scope 1-3 Emissions Reporting

AWS has launched the Sustainability console, a standalone service that consolidates carbon emissions reporting into a single place with its own permissions model, a new API, configurable CSV exports, and Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data broken down by service and Region. The console is available at no additional cost with historical data going back to January 2022.

AWS CTO Werner Vogels framed the launch in architectural terms in a LinkedIn post, arguing that carbon emissions should become part of the standard observability stack:

When carbon emission becomes just another metric in your observability stack sitting next to latency, cost, and error rates, it stops being a compliance exercise and starts becoming an architectural discipline.

The console builds on the existing Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, which previously lived inside the AWS Billing console. That created a practical friction: sustainability professionals who needed emissions data also needed…