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16/05/2025
Blog : Embrace Sustainability with Cloud GreenOps
In today's world, sustainability is more than just a buzzword—it's a necessity.
As organisations strive to reduce their environmental impact, Cloud GreenOps has become a crucial practice. Cloud GreenOps, focuses on optimising operations to minimise carbon footprints and promote eco-friendly practices.
Understanding Cloud GreenOps
Cloud GreenOps is the practice of achieving value from cloud workloads for environmental sustainability, focusing on optimising carbon emissions, energy consumption, and resource waste. It combines principles from cloud technology, engineering, and sustainability, ensuring that digital transformation efforts align with environmental responsibility. Cloud GreenOps is about making intentional decisions at every stage of the cloud lifecycle to balance performance, cost, and ecological impact.
The Benefits of Cloud GreenOps
Cloud GreenOps is akin to FinOps, which aims to optimise cloud costs, but with a focus on environmental sustainability. Cloud GreenOps helps companies measure, report, and act on their sustainability goals by leveraging data and ensuring the conscientious use of AI. Whether you're looking to reduce energy consumption, optimise resource usage, or enhance your company's ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance, Cloud GreenOps provides the framework to achieve these objectives.
Implementing Cloud GreenOps
Unlike traditional sustainability approaches that focus solely on reducing carbon footprints through renewable energy or offsets, Cloud GreenOps integrates sustainability into the very architecture and operation of cloud workloads. This involves evaluating the efficiency of workloads, selecting cloud regions powered by greener energy, and optimising compute resources to reduce waste. It also includes leveraging innovative techniques such as carbon-aware scheduling and sustainable software engineering practices.
Synyega’s Framework for Cloud GreenOps
Synyega’s eGuide ‘Cloud GreenOps: A Framework for Sustainability’ outlines the core principles of Cloud GreenOps and Synyega’s Framework to measure and report your carbon footprint. This guide will explore the principles of Cloud GreenOps, its benefits, and practical steps to implement it within your organisation. We will share topics that can be included to integrate sustainability into your cloud operations.
The Future of Cloud GreenOps
“Gartner Predicts 50% of Organizations Will Manage Hybrid Cloud Energy Consumption with Sustainability Monitoring By 2026” (Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, May 2024 in Sydney).
While Cloud GreenOps benefits from the financial and operational disciplines of FinOps, it is not dependent on them. Instead, it can stand as a complementary practice, enabling organisations to embed sustainability into their cloud strategy, whether or not they have a dedicated FinOps function. Cloud GreenOps ensures that organisations make data-driven, environmentally conscious decisions about their cloud usage, reducing both costs and carbon impact while improving long-term operational efficiency.
Embark on this journey towards a greener future by downloading the guide and discovering how Cloud GreenOps can transform your organisation into a sustainability leader.
