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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Watts
@50% load
PUE
for US West (Oregon)
gCO₂eq/kWh
for US West (Oregon)
gCO₂eq
for m5.xlarge
Just estimated the carbon footprint of my EC2 workload: for 8760 hour(s) of m5.xlarge in us-west-2 the result is 120652.7 gCO₂eq (104008.7 gCO₂eq for running the instance and 16644 gCO₂eq for its manufacturing). Give it a try too!
| Instance Load | Idle | 10% | 50% | 100% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instance Estimated Power Consumption |
8.8 Watts |
14.0 Watts |
28.2 Watts |
39.9 Watts |
| Carbon Emissions from Running (Scope 2) |
3.7 gCO₂eq |
5.9 gCO₂eq |
11.9 gCO₂eq |
16.8 gCO₂eq |
| Carbon Emissions from Manufacturing (Scope 3) |
+ 1.9 gCO₂eq |
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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.