Sustainability Solutions in the Digital Age

Adoption of Cloud Technology

Mass awareness of negative effects on climate change has been resulting in consciousness of the impact of products, having intense pressure from policy makers too. More companies are pushing themselves to become net carbon negative by 2050, meaning the whole organization optimizes towards sustainability solution goals. Cloud adoption is seen as a lever to reduce the indirect emission footprint of data centers, these data centers are receptive to dynamic scale needs towards managing energy consumption. Cloud vendors provide platform services enabling dynamic resource scale to reduce server volume requirements.  Cloud vendors are investing in building custom hardware to run their servers to improve data center efficiencies.

Sustainability in the Cloud

Cloud vendors are responsible for sustainability of the cloud, achieving security in the cloud, also responsible for optimizing workloads for sustainability in the cloud. Sustainability is the non-functional quality attribute requirement for cloud solutions with non-functional attributes in software architecture. 

1. Identifying the right cloud 
Customers understand how cloud vendors help in achieving sustainability of the cloud and their alignment, investments, and progress to net zero currently and in future.

2. Optimizing digital cloud solutions
Sustainability in cloud workloads include the impact of services used in measuring impacts through the workload lifecycle, using architectural practices to minimize the impacts.  Cloud solution architects are responsible for making the right architectural choices to optimize in the cloud, including the right type of compute instances. Rightly managed cloud platform services implement data patterns to reduce space consumption, optimizing algorithms, designing dynamic scale, to level out peak loads. 

Cloud for Embedded Application Development

Companies leveraging the cloud to optimize production of development hardware units and hence control waste and emissions with cloud-based virtual development environments for embedded applications. Cloud enabled companies for embedded applications onto ARM instances emulating the actual hardware. A virtual development and deployment environment on cloud enables distributed development and eliminates dependency on machines and hardware to be available, minimizing the need to manufacture and procure hardware boards for developers, reducing unnecessary production and potential waste.

Final Wrap up

Cloud vendors and other players provide solutions enabling cloud solution providers to monitor the carbon footprint profiling of cloud projects. Digital transformation and sustainability has become paramount with strategic planning, reasonable allocation of resources, and relentless innovation. Digital resources offer a world of possibilities for creating eco-friendly solutions, including a green future, a reduced carbon footprint, and a healthier planet becoming one of the top priorities for many employees and consumers.