Cloud Carbon and Cost Assessment
We turn your cloud optimisation aspirations into reality by conducting a comprehensive assessment of your cloud emissions and costs in a matter of weeks.
Cut Your Cloud Emissions and Costs
Advances in cloud technology enable you to scale rapidly and efficiently. However, such stellar growth often comes with increased costs and carbon emissions. Scott Logic's Cloud Carbon and Cost Assessment service identifies where these increases are occurring and helps you optimise your cloud usage, enabling you to reduce the negative financial and environmental impacts while maintaining performance.
Access incisive analysis
We use tools and frameworks including Cloud Carbon Footprint and our own Technology Carbon Standard (TCS) to assess your current cloud landscape, providing you with a clear picture of your cloud usage and where carbon and cost spikes are occurring.
Gain expert insights
Because of our experience in cloud architecture, sustainability and cost management, our engineers can guide you from assessment through to change implementation, delivering first-class outcomes. For instance, we have reduced client cloud costs by up to 26% and carbon emissions by up to 28%.
Future-proof operations
To ensure your cloud usage remains optimised moving forward, you can choose to embed our powerful tools and frameworks into your operations permanently, allowing you to make sustainable and repeatable improvements on a rolling basis.
Tailored outcomes, exceptional service
Scott Logic takes a hands-on approach, working closely with your teams throughout our three-stage assessment process. This unique collaborative approach ensures the solutions we develop are tailored to your precise needs and can be effectively implemented across your organisation. Here’s how we deliver:
Kick off and mapping / 2-4 weeks
Activities
- Run kick-off sessions, conduct interviews, and gather data on your cloud platforms and technology assets
- Map your technology estate to our Technology Carbon Standard
- Alternatively, focus solely on the cloud elements of your tech estate
Outcomes
- High-level carbon estimation report with assessment of emissions from your estate
- Identification of where emissions are of most concern
- Agreement on the scope/priorities for the remaining phases of your assessment
Fact finding and analysis / 3 weeks
Activities
- Deploy Cloud Carbon Footprint tool company-wide or within a single environment
- Analyse cloud usage data and billing information
- Identify potential areas for optimisation across your entire cloud environment
Outcomes
- Comprehensive understanding of your current cloud usage
- Initial insights into cost and carbon reduction opportunities
Recommendations and planning / 3 weeks
Activities
- Develop detailed recommendations for optimisation
- Prioritise suggestions based on impact and effort required
- Create draft implementation roadmap
- Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders
Outcomes
- Concise report with actionable recommendations
- Clear roadmap for implementation
- Calculated cost and carbon savings
Take total control
Throughout the project, we share all our processes and learnings with your teams. This raises stakeholder awareness across your organisation about your commitment to carbon reduction, and enables you to continue actioning sustainability practices once our role is complete.
Generate great returns
Our Cloud Carbon and Cost Assessment typically identifies potential savings of 20-30% in costs and carbon emissions, with quick wins that can be implemented immediately. We can also provide ongoing support for implementation and monitoring if required.
DS Smith: Setting a standard for measuring emissions
A trailblazer in environmental sustainability, DS Smith sought Scott Logic’s support to initially measure carbon emissions and establish a framework from them to be able to map, mitigate, and measure their own emissions thereafter.
Thanks to Scott Logic, we have clear visibility of our technology carbon footprint.
Jeremy Axe, Group CTO, DS Smith
Ready to cut your cloud emissions and costs?
With Scott Logic, your Cloud Carbon and Cost Assessment project is in expert hands. If you'd like to transform your cloud usage, contact Oliver Cronk, our Sustainable Technology Director, to learn more.