Summary
In this chapter, you have learned about how we can make data centers and clouds run more sustainably. As an introduction to the topic, you have learned about the definition of the cloud, its service models, deployment models, and cloud characteristics, and the areas of responsibility from a customer, cloud provider, and resource provider perspective.
By now, you should understand the value the cloud can bring from an agility, scalability, reliability, resilience, cost optimization, and sustainability perspective. We introduced a set of sustainable metrics that you can apply to create your own data center sustainability score card.
Furthermore, you should better understand how sustainable and what public commitments the seven global cloud service providers, that is, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, Tencent Cloud, and IBM, have made along with what their overall report card looks like.
We looked at a few use cases from Wipro and EcoDataCenter...
