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Appendix: Sustainability

How do you take advantage of data access and usage patterns to support your sustainability goals?

• Implement a data classification policy
• Use technologies that support data access and storage patterns
• Use lifecycle policies to delete unnecessary data
• Minimize over-provisioning in block storage
• Remove unneeded or redundant data
• Use shared file systems or object storage to access common data
• Back up data only when difficult to recreate

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