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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. AWS speakers: Wafae Bakkali, Isha Dua

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms. For example if you run in the cloud provider regions near Montreal, Google reports that energy is 100% carbon free hydro powered, all the time.

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