Carbon Calculator
Track and analyze cloud carbon emissions, minimizing environmental impact.
Overview
Cloud carbon emissions measurement and analysis tool to determine the impact on our environment.
Challenge
The real challenge was gathering consumption statistics (compute, storage, networking, and so on)
from
major cloud providers and calculating expected energy (Watt-Hours) and greenhouse gas emissions
represented as carbon dioxide equivalents.
These visualizations are required to be shown on a dashboard for developers, sustainability
leaders, and other stakeholders in a business to examine and act on. It currently supports Amazon
Web
Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Solution
Our team developed a solution that gives visibility for measuring, monitoring, and reducing cloud
carbon emissions.
We apply best-practice approaches to turn cloud utilization into anticipated energy
consumption and carbon emissions, resulting in metrics and carbon savings estimates that can be
shared
with workers, investors, and other stakeholders.
Conclusions
The end solution pulls usage and cost data from all linked accounts in your AWS, GCP, or Azure
Organization. This approach provides us with a more holistic estimation of your cloud energy and
carbon consumption, but may be less accurate as we use an average constant (rather than measured)
CPU
Utilization.
Before estimating the energy and carbon emission, we validate whether a given usage is Compute,
Storage, Networking, Memory or Unknown.