Towards a Carbon-Aware Cloud
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The talk explains how public cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure, AWS) produces large CO2 emissions—comparable to whole countries—and shows that choosing cloud regions can cut emissions by 10–20× due to differing grid carbon intensities. It covers regulatory context, methods and tools to measure or estimate cloud emissions, techniques to reduce infrastructure emissions, the concept of carbon-aware systems that auto-adjust based on current carbon intensity, and includes a live demo of a carbon-aware deployment.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26Environmental impact of cloud
- 10:15Measuring CO2 footprint
- 22:25Reducing cloud impact
- 27:08Carbon awareness solutions
- 39:50Q&A
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