Sure. That’s where the conversation always starts.
But last month, one of our clients added a line we hadn’t heard before:
“…and if we can reduce our carbon footprint too, even better.”
They weren’t a green-tech company.
Just a mid-sized firm running 20+ workloads on Azure and AWS.
And their monthly bill was rising—so was pressure from their board to report sustainability metrics.
That’s when we got to work.
Here’s what we uncovered (and what many SMBs miss):
🔍 14 VMs running at full power—even at night
🔍 Old dev environments no one shut down
🔍 100+ GB of log files stored in high-tier storage
🔍 Compute-intensive jobs scheduled during peak energy hours
With a few smart shifts, here’s what we did:
✅ Moved archival data to cold storage
✅ Auto-scaled dev environments based on real-time usage
✅ Scheduled batch jobs for off-peak hours
✅ Replaced some x86 instances with ARM-based alternatives
✅ Set up dashboards to track cost and energy use
The result?
- 28% drop in cloud spend
- Significant reduction in carbon impact (and yes, it looked great in the board report)
Sustainability is after all about smarter, cleaner infrastructure that also saves money.
If your cloud feels bloated and your sustainability page is still blank, this might be the win-win your team needs.
Let’s make the cloud lighter, together.
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