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title: Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to…
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date: 2023-01-16
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original_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7020585950204289024"
topics: ["cloud", "green-software"]
summary: "Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20.7% to a total $591.8 billion in 2023, up from $490.3 billion in 2022. This is higher than the 18.8% growth forecast for 2022. (Source: Gartner) Out of the above spend, what do you…"
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Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20.7% to a total $591.8 billion in 2023,  
up from $490.3 billion in 2022. This is higher than the 18.8% growth forecast for 2022. (Source: Gartner)

Out of the above spend, what do you think would be the -
- Cost of cloud resources that would remain idle?
- How much cost can be saved from cloud resources optimization?
- What impact does it have on sustainability?

As per the Google Cloud report in Feb 2022, they analyzed the aggregate data from all customers across Google Cloud and  
found over 600,000 gross kgCO2e in seemingly idle projects that could be cleaned up or reclaimed —  
which would have a similar impact to planting almost 10,000 trees. This is data from one provider,  
only for idle projects. I could not find any public data for cloud optimization, but it would be quite significant.

As migration, development and deploying applications on the cloud continue to increase, we need to embed sustainability  
while designing and deploying cloud applications, to lower the carbon footprint of the software applications. This not only lowers your cost bills, but also makes your application energy efficent.

Checkout my previous blog - https://lnkd.in/dTCAdq5J  
on one of the approaches to deliver sustainability goals on cloud and reduce your cost spends.

#cloud #learning #sustainability #finops Green Software Foundation