Including Sustainability in Your Cloud Strategy

Introduction

• Do not waste water
• Designing for scarcity in a world of abundance
• The green behind the cloud
• The rise of carbon-aware cloud computing

1. Foundations of Cloud Sustainability

• Factors affecting 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
• Sustainable FinOps: Managing costs and carbon together

2. Why Are Some Technologies More Efficient Than Others?

• Measuring parallel efficiency of cloud systems
• The role of AI: Efficiency vs. carbon cost

3. Carbon Measurements and Their Implications

• Carbon tax rates and carbon intensity
• CSP sustainability calculators
• Using golden coefficients for carbon estimation
• Evolving carbon measurement tools in the cloud
• Cloud sustainability regulations: What businesses need to know
• Compliance challenges: Aligning cloud strategy with sustainability laws
• Cloud hardware innovations

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