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IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions.  That’s why we developed Carbon Impact.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. It was developed with guidance from the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance ( SDIA ), expanding on formulas from Cloud Carbon Footprint. Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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How To Choose A Headless CMS

Smashing Magazine

Infrastructure Integration. Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes! Infrastructure Integration. Similarly, when it comes to procuring infrastructure, you can choose to host your site on Netlify, Azure, GCP or AWS. For developers.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. More after jump!

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