Sustainable cloud infrastructure: from ideation to deployment
summary
Claims a design-to-decommission framework that treats sobriety as a third non-negotiable goal alongside performance and security, backed by concrete controls: challenge criticality assumptions, gather peaks/users/availability targets, and pick hosting (cloud vs on‑prem) to enable right-sizing and autoscaling. Recommends serverless, containers and minimal OS images, compression/caching, PUE and refurbished hardware, and a strict data lifecycle and deduplication policy. Cites 52% of digital energy (2017) as the target to reduce and pushes ongoing monitoring to downsize or remove unused resources.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:13Welcome
- 1:55Sustainable Digital Challenge
- 2:37Digital Energy Consumption
- 3:56Goals of an infrastructure
- 4:51Sobriety
- 5:08Digital Sobriety
- 5:44Emerging discipline
- 6:23Business requirements
- 7:10Service owner
- 9:03Data center provider
- 10:21Technical architecture
- 13:25Onprem vs cloud
- 16:03Right sizing
- 23:10Observations
- 27:26Conclusion
- 30:04Question
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