Including Sustainability in Your Cloud Strategy

Including Sustainability in Your Cloud Strategy

47mBeginner2025-10-21

Authors

Fawad Qureshi

Fawad Qureshi

Technology Strategist | Analytics, Cloud, Big Data

Course details

The course covers the fundamental design principles on the most important factors to consider when you want to build a scalable, sustainable solution in the cloud. Instructor Fawad Qureshi helps you understand the nuances of how different design choices produce a different impact on carbon consumption. Learn how you can measure the total carbon consumption of your cloud usage, and the impact design choices can have on the business. Gain an understanding of global regulations and reporting requirements. Learn how you can integrate FinOps and AI considerations into your sustainability strategy.

Skills covered

Sustainability AwarenessCloud FoundationsCloud ComputingProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Do not waste water
  • Designing for scarcity in a world of abundance
  • The green behind the cloud
  • The rise of carbon-aware cloud computing

Foundations of Cloud Sustainability

  • Factors affecting carbon consumption in the cloud
  • Understanding types of emissions
  • Impact of CPU utilization on carbon consumption
  • Power usage effectiveness
  • Cloud shared responsibility models
  • To autoscale or not to autoscale
  • Sustainable FinOps - Managing costs and carbon together

Why Are Some Technologies More Efficient Than Others

  • Measuring parallel efficiency of cloud systems
  • The role of AI - Efficiency vs. carbon cost

Carbon Measurements and Their Implications

  • Carbon tax rates and carbon intensity
  • CSP sustainability calculators
  • Using golden coefficients for carbon estimation
  • Evolving carbon measurement tools in the cloud
  • Cloud sustainability regulations - What businesses need to know
  • Compliance challenges - Aligning cloud strategy with sustainability laws
  • Cloud hardware innovations

Energy Consumption Case Studies

  • Energy consumption, case study 1
  • Energy consumption, case study 2

Consolidation for a Greener Future

  • Benefits of consolidation

Conclusion

  • Learning more about sustainability
40,000 Toman