Indian providers and public sector organisations that migrated computing workloads from on-premises information centres to cloud infrastructure could count on to lower their power use—and connected carbon footprint—by practically 80%, says Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Carbon Reduction Opportunity of Moving to the Cloud for APAC report by 451 Research, a unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence, commissioned by AWS, surveyed more than 500 private and public sector organisations across Asia Pacific (APAC), spanning a wide variety of industries across Australia, India, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. It consists of more than one hundred survey respondents in India, and also identified that cloud service providers that tap into the regional renewable power marketplace to run their operations in India can additional enhance carbon emissions savings. The report estimates that if just 25% of the 1,200 biggest publicly-traded enterprises in India place one megawatt (MW) of compute workload into the cloud, powered by renewable power, it would save the equivalent of a year’s worth of emissions from 160,000 Indian households.
“Customers in APAC who move compute workloads to the AWS Cloud can significantly reduce their carbon footprint, benefiting from the net effect of all our sustainability efforts,” stated Ken Haig, Head of Energy Policy, Asia Pacific and Japan, AWS. “Our scale and focus on innovation allow us to improve efficiency of our data centre operations faster than traditional enterprises.”
Puneet Chandok, president of industrial business—AWS India and South Asia, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (AISPL), stated, “Cloud technology can credibly help companies in India decarbonise. With India’s vibrant startup ecosystem already pioneering low carbon solutions, it is imperative that enterprises, public sector organisations, and policy makers factor in sustainability as a critical part of their cloud migration decisions.”
451 Research identified the power efficiency gains of cloud information centres came from their use of the newest, most power-effective servers, which commonly run at greater utilisation prices than on-premises information centers. These two elements combined led cloud information centres to use 67.4% significantly less power. The typical server utilisation in APAC enterprises was just beneath 15%. By contrast, 451 Research shows that cloud operators utilise servers properly above 50% to uncover the appropriate balance in between efficiency and application overall performance.