Understanding The Modernisation Platforms Carbon Footprint

[SimonPPledger]

User Story

As a product manager I want to know what the carbon footprint of the modernisation platform is.
We have been provided with a few open source providers of tools that could measure the footprint.

https://www.apptio.com/products/cloudability/ (IBM)
https://greenpixie.com/ Amazon recommend them over Cloudablity
https://sopht.com/en/

This ticket is to look at https://greenpixie.com/ in the first instance and understand:
What it would report on
what it would not work for
what we would need to do to make use of it

It may be useful to compare it to the other suggestions if time allows

This is to cover AWS elements of modernisation platform - including applications

Value / Purpose

By knowing what the carbon footprint is we can then look at what we can do to reduce it in a measurable way. The plan is we would then use this as a metric for the team.
Reducing the carbon footprint is likely to save money, however we should clearly be looking to reduce carbon footprint anyway

Useful Contacts

julien.nioche@digital.justice.gov.uk

Additional Information

No response

Definition of Done

• Document produced outlining points above
• Document presented to the team
• New tickets created if we want to proceed or
• netw tickets created to look at other options if necessary

[Kudzai-moj]

Done some background reading into Green Ops and the above solutions.

I have emailed green pixie and sopht for more details and potential demo that i can present to the team for both solutions.

The IBM solution is for Fin Ops and not Green Ops

[Kudzai-moj]

Document with findings - Mod Platform Carbon Footprint.pptx

[Kudzai-moj]

Have a meetings with reps from green pixie and sopht today.

Also had a chat with Julien Nioche and he sent me the links below to have a read

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/environmental-impact-cloud-common-crawl-case-study-julien-nioche-at8xf

https://podcasts.castplus.fm/e/m849x5pn-7-cameron-casher-and-benjamin-davy-cloud-carbon-footprint-sustainability-aws-gcp-azure-vs-aws-azure-and-gcp-sustainability-dashboards

https://www.cloudcarbonfootprint.org/

https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/

[Kudzai-moj]

Will be putting this ticket in blocked as i'm off from Thursday 31 October coming back Tuesday 5 November.

Latest Update is that, i will document findings from meeting with pixie and sopht today, then on my return finalise the document with findings from the meetings and links sent by Julian

[Kudzai-moj]

Turns out i was wrong. IBM does does provide Greenops services. I have a meeting with them today

Had an initial meeting with someone from IBM, Second meeting has been organized to discuss questions raised

[Kudzai-moj]

About Sopht 2024.pdf

[Kudzai-moj]

• Greenpixie vs AWS Greenpixie Comparisons (2) (1).pptx

• Green pixie cost
  Upto £10m per annum AWS spend - £65k per annum
  £10m up to £20m per annum AWS spend - £120k per annum
  £20m - £30m per annum AWS spend - £165k per annum

• Sopht cost - based on number of lines on cost of usage report, which is a bit complicated atm as mentioned in the meeting (above numbers for Greenpixie helps us have an idea)

• Open Source Solution - https://www.cloudcarbonfootprint.org/docs/getting-started

• Technical documentation for onboarding

Greenpixie - Greenpixie Onboarding - AWS.pdf Sopht - https://sopht.notion.site/AWS-2be9b63f2720413481b0835e56f83ee9

[Kudzai-moj]

I have raised ticket #8463 as an output this ticket. Simon has confirmed that ticket can now be closed
https://mojdt.slack.com/archives/C013RM6MFFW/p1731337566881729?thread_ts=1731323183.737909&cid=C013RM6MFFW