Sustainability in the Cloud - Part 1 - What are Emission Scopes?

Introduction to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol scopes and how this ties into the pre-requisite knowledge to better understand how to measure emission impacts when using cloud computing services, and how these relate to the AWS Sustainability Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework.

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[tonyb]

Sorry mate, you are delusional. If a company can carbon offset by throwing their resources into someone elses datacenter (ie, the cloud), then they will do it just so it doesn't appear on their books, ie, make it someone else's problem. Do you really think cloud providers have sustainability in mind? There's only one thing they care about, and that's money. The cracks started appearing in the cloud a few years ago, and many companies are now finally waking up to the extortionate costs and restrictive controls of operating in the cloud, which are only increasing. There are some benefits (scalability etc), but at a cost, and nobody ever saves money moving to the cloud (our companies SaaS subscription costs have absolutely skyrocketed, because we have no choice these days). The cloud is a money machine, which attracted many cloud startups like flies round sh*t as they jostled to get their nose's in the trough, but it won't last.