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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just released the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint, a tool that allows customers to see an overview of their carbon emissions related to the use of AWS cloud services. The application also allows you to identify the reduction in carbon emissions when using AWS instead of maintaining an on-premises data center, as well as calculating a forecast of the environmental gains that will be achieved as AWS moves towards using 100% renewable energy in its operations by 2025, five years earlier than the original target.

AWS Customer Carbon Footprint has a dashboard in its own management console, which can be exported as a PDF and offers data visualization in an easy-to-understand way. Customers can view their carbon footprint by geographic location and by services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Another benefit is the ability to measure changes in their carbon footprint over time as they deploy new capabilities in the cloud. The new tool uses data that meets the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the international standard for greenhouse gas reporting.

 

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