Cloud Carbon Footprint
An open source tool to measure and analyze cloud carbon emissions.
Overview
Cloud Carbon Footprint is an open-source tool that provides visibility and tooling to measure, monitor and reduce your cloud carbon emissions. It uses best practice methodologies to convert cloud utilization into estimated energy usage and carbon emissions, producing metrics and carbon savings estimates that can be shared with stakeholders. The tool supports multiple public clouds, breaks down emissions by various factors, and helps teams identify areas with the highest ROI to reduce wasted cloud usage and carbon emissions.
✨ Key Features
- Estimates energy and carbon emissions for AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
- Provides actionable recommendations to reduce emissions
- Drill-down analysis by cloud provider, account, service, and time period
- Includes embodied emissions from manufacturing
- Visualizes emissions data through graphs and charts
- Exports metrics in CSV format
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Open-source and vendor-neutral
- Extensible and customizable
- Includes embodied emissions in calculations
Unique Value: Provides a free, open, and transparent way for organizations to measure and reduce their cloud's environmental impact.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Cloud carbon emissions reporting for ESG initiatives
- Optimizing cloud workloads for energy efficiency
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- On-premise data center analysis (without custom integration)
- Real-time energy grid-aware workload shifting
🏆 Alternatives
Unlike native cloud provider tools, it offers a multi-cloud perspective in a single pane of glass and is fully transparent in its methodology.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Fully open-source and free to use.
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