Carbon footprint estimator for AWS instances

Curious about the power consumption and carbon footprint of an EC2 instance? As part of the first Measure challenge, get an estimation below. This initiative is still a work in progress, data is provided as-is for open contribution purposes and without warranty.

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Carbon footprint estimator for AWS instances

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1

Measure​

Define your EC2 workload and get its carbon footprint

2

Reduce​

Use this information to optimize your infrastructure

3

Share

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Select your workload

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Hour(s)

Formula & Methodology

Scope 2
Instance Power Consumption

Watts
@50% load

x
Data Center
PUE

Power Usage Effectiveness

x
Electricity Carbon Intensity

gCOâ‚‚eq/kWh
AWS Region

1000
+
Scope 3
Manufacturing Emissions

gCOâ‚‚eq
4-year lifetime

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How we compute the carbon footprint of an EC2 instance
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Instance Specifications

Release Date: N/A
Instance vCPU: N/A
Total vCPU: N/A
Processor: N/A
Instance memory: N/A
Total memory: N/A
Storage type: N/A
GPU: N/A

Region information

Region slug: N/A
Region name: N/A
Region country: N/A
Region co2e: N/A
Region PUE: N/A

Power Consumption

Estimated power consumed by an instance according to its load level (idle, 10% load, 50% load, 100% load). This number doesn’t include the PUE and only reflects the server consumption.
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Scope 2

Carbon emissions related to running the instance, including the datacenter PUE
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Scope 3

Carbon emissions related to manufacturing the underlying hardware
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