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title: How do you reduce the carbon impact of your digital cloud…
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date: 2022-11-24
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summary: How do you reduce the carbon impact of your digital cloud infrastructure and balance trade-offs across cost and latency. One of the starting points is to leverage a cloud region that offers clean energy. If you are running on Google Cloud, you can try the…
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How do you reduce the carbon impact of your #digital #cloud infrastructure and balance trade-offs across cost and latency.

One of the starting points is to leverage a cloud region that offers clean energy.

If you are running on Google Cloud, you can try the Google Cloud Region picker tool - https://lnkd.in/dTCRCiNF which helps you pick a Google Cloud region considering carbon footprint, price, and latency.

Also, if your production workloads can’t run on the cleanest region due to your requirements like data sovereignty, do consider running non-production workloads on the cleanest regions.

The region section is just one part of how you can reduce the carbon impact. Apart from moving to the cloud, the focus should be on designing and developing energy-efficient cloud applications from day one.