Sustainable cloud infrastructure: from ideation to deployment
summary
Claims that infrastructure made up 52% of digital energy in 2017 and that sobriety must be a third non‑negotiable design goal drive a practical framework: challenge existing criticality ratings, gather peaks/users/acceptable downtime, choose cloud or on‑prem by fit and PUE, apply right‑sizing and auto‑scaling (start small, scale on demand), prefer serverless where truly event‑driven, slim OS and container images, enforce a data lifecycle and minimization policy, delete duplicate backups and unused instances, and monitor resource efficiency to downsize or remove waste.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:13Welcome
- 1:55Sustainable Digital Challenge
- 2:37Digital Energy Consumption
- 3:56Goals of an infrastructure
- 4:51Sobriety
- 5:08Digital Sobriety
- 5:44Emerging discipline
- 6:23Business requirements
- 7:10Service owner
- 9:03Data center provider
- 10:21Technical architecture
- 13:25Onprem vs cloud
- 16:03Right sizing
- 23:10Observations
- 27:26Conclusion
- 30:04Question
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