ECO-SUS-ENERGY-001¶
Name: Always-on non-production environments
Category: Sustainability & Environmental Impact
Family: Energy Efficiency
Primary layer: process
System layers: process
Description¶
Development, test, preview, or demo environments remain powered continuously without an operational need.
Impact¶
- type: energy
- confidence: 0.8
- notes: Added as part of the 0.3.0 expansion to capture cross-system sustainability and operational waste.
Detection¶
- method: static-or-runtime
- confidence: 0.55
- runtime_validation_required: Yes
Remediation¶
- guidance: Add schedules, lifecycle policies, ephemeral environments, or automated shutdown for idle non-production resources.
- tradeoffs: May require architecture, product, or operations review rather than a local code change.
Cost Dimensions¶
- compute: high
- memory: medium
- network: low
- storage: medium
- human_time: low
- carbon: high
- water: medium
Amplification¶
- scales_with_users: No
- scales_with_data_volume: No
- scales_non_linearly: No
Temporal Behavior¶
- startup_only: No
- steady_state: Yes
- burst_sensitive: No
- time_degradation: Yes
Runtime Evidence¶
- cloud inventory
- schedules
- billing data
Pattern examples¶
No pattern examples provided.
Remediation examples¶
No remediation examples provided.
Metadata¶
- catalog_version: 0.4.0
- status: draft
- source: catalog expansion recommendations applied 2026-05-21