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.

Carbon footprint estimator for AWS instances

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Define your EC2 workload and get its carbon footprint

2

Reduce​

Use this information to optimize your infrastructure

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Select your workload

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Hour(s)

Your Estimation

Detailed calculation for:
Scope 2
28.1

Watts
@50% load

x
1.2

PUE
for Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

x
708

gCO₂eq/kWh
for Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

1000
+
Scope 3
2.2

gCO₂eq
for c5n.xlarge

x
24 Hour(s)
Just estimated the carbon footprint of my EC2 workload: for 24 hour(s) of c5n.xlarge in ap-south-1 the result is 625.8 gCO₂eq (573 gCO₂eq for running the instance and 52.8 gCO₂eq for its manufacturing). Give it a try too!

Just estimated the carbon footprint of my EC2 workload: for 24 hour(s) of c5n.xlarge in ap-south-1 the result is 625.8 gCO₂eq (573 gCO₂eq for running the instance and 52.8 gCO₂eq for its manufacturing). Give it a try too!

Raw data for one hour of computing:
Instance Load Idle 10% 50% 100%
Instance Estimated Power Consumption 10.2
Watts
16.5
Watts
28.1
Watts
38.1
Watts
Carbon Emissions from Running (Scope 2) 8.7
gCO₂eq
14
gCO₂eq
23.9
gCO₂eq
32.4
gCO₂eq
Carbon Emissions from Manufacturing (Scope 3) + 2.2
gCO₂eq

This estimator relies on a dataset published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License aggregating EC2 specifications, power consumption and manufacturing footprint estimation data for each instance type.

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Instance Specifications

Release Date: November 2018
Instance vCPU: 4
Total vCPU: 72
Processor: Xeon Platinum 8124M
Instance memory: 10.5GB
Total memory: 192GB
Storage type: EBS
GPU: N/A

Region information

Region slug: ap-south-1
Region name: Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Region country: India
Electricity Carbon Intensity
708 gCO₂eq/kWh
Region PUE
1.2

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.

Scope 2

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

Scope 3

Carbon emissions related to manufacturing the underlying hardware