Deployment sustainability

https://taxonomy.eticas.ai/risk/deployment-sustainability

Maturity: emerging

The organisation lacks the capacity for ongoing operation, maintenance, monitoring, and improvement of the AI system after initial deployment. Includes vendor lock-in risk, dependency on external expertise, and unclear cost-effectiveness or value proposition.

This subcategory is emerging. It has not yet been validated through established assessment methods.

System type: ADM and LLM systems
Lifecycle stages: Post Processing

Mappings to external frameworks

Standards & frameworks

Framework Reference
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — AI Management System A.10 Third-party and customer relationships
NIST AI 600-1 — Generative AI Risk Profile Value Chain and Component Integration

Taxonomies & vocabularies

Framework Reference
IBM AI Risk Atlas Non-technical → Vendor lock-in / dependency on third-party model