We hook into every service we use, including Amazon Web Services, MongoDB, Microsoft Azure, and more, to identify and aggregate the usage to accurately represent our energy consumption and environmental impact.
Amazon Web Services:
Amazon Web Services is one of the largest cloud computing platforms, serving millions of businesses and organizations worldwide. However, AWS also has a substantial carbon footprint, with estimates indicating that its data centers generate approximately 60 million metric tons of CO2 annually. Despite this, AWS has committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and has launched several initiatives to achieve this goal. These include investing in renewable energy, optimizing its infrastructure to reduce energy consumption, and partnering with customers to reduce their carbon footprints.
It has created a separate tool within a platform to track, measure, review, and forecast the carbon emissions generated from AWS usage. AWS usage is summarized under two categories:
- Emission savings from AWS cloud infrastructure efficiencies.
- Emission savings from AWS purchase of renewable energy
From Speak’s AWS Account:
We have near to 0 Carbon emissions calculated on our AWS account.

MongoDB:
MongoDB, as a software company, produces limited carbon emissions. The vast majority of their carbon footprint is attributable to emissions related to their value chain.
The most significant contribution comes from their cloud partners’ data centers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. We have deployed our database on one of the cloud providers. Their efforts to reduce carbon footprints automatically reduce MongoDB’s carbon footprint. [Source: MongoDB Sustainability Report]
Additionally, MongoDB offers its customers tools to help them reduce their carbon footprints by optimizing their database queries and improving their application code.
Microsoft Azure:
Microsoft Azure is another leading cloud computing platform serving businesses and organizations across the globe. Like AWS, Azure has a significant carbon footprint, with estimates indicating that its data centers generate approximately 44 million metric tons of CO2 annually. However, Azure has also committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, ten years ahead of AWS’s target. Azure is investing in renewable energy, improving its data center efficiency, and developing new technologies to help its customers reduce their carbon footprints to achieve this goal.
Azure has developed a proprietary tool called the Carbon Reduction Dashboard, enabling the company to monitor and analyze its carbon emissions continuously. This dashboard provides Azure with real-time data on energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the environmental impact of its operations. By tracking its carbon footprint meticulously, Azure can identify areas where it can reduce its emissions and make informed decisions about where to invest in carbon reduction measures.
It requires various access and installation of the application to understand the emission usage.