Measuring your CO2 spend in the cloud
As we saw in Chapter 4, Data Center and the Cloud, the three most dominant cloud hyperscalers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google – heavily emphasize their commitment to sustainability. All three vendors now provide a solution to understand carbon emissions and provide tools or recommendations to reduce the carbon footprint. The methodology varies between the three vendors in terms of GHG scope completeness, calculation approach, and coverage of services, which questions the comparability. There are also other vendors on the market that provide the same capability and this space is far from standardized and mature.
It is essential to have a holistic view of your landscape as a company, but so far, limited integration capabilities between the vendors have been observed. Therefore, you must look elsewhere to find a combined representation of your cloud estate. Toward the end of this section, we will look at a...
