Including Sustainability in Your Cloud Strategy

Get simple, easy-to-understand information on how design choices in a cloud plan can impact overall carbon consumption and how you can measure your carbon footprint in the cloud.

Introduction

• Do not waste water
• Designing for scarcity in a world of abundance
• The green behind the cloud

1. Foundations of Cloud Sustainability

• Factors impacting carbon consumption in the cloud
• Understanding types of emissions
• Impact of CPU utilization on carbon consumption
• Power usage effectiveness
• Cloud shared responsibility models
• To autoscale or not to autoscale

2. Why Are Some Technologies More Efficient than Others?

• Measuring parallel efficiency of the cloud systems

3. Carbon Measurements and Their Implications

• Carbon tax rates and carbon intensity
• CSP sustainability calculators
• Using golden coefficients for carbon estimation

4. Energy Consumption Case Studies

• Energy consumption case study 1
• Energy consumption case study 2

5. Consolidation for a Greener Future

• Benefits of consolidation

Conclusion

• Learning more about sustainability