Despite efforts by organisations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to improve the energy efficiency of their datacentres, their carbon footprint is still higher than that of hyperscale cloud providers which tend to maximise
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That was one of the key findings of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) commissioned study involving more than 500 organisations in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and India, which revealed that energy savings of nearly 80% can be achieved by running business applications in the cloud rather than in corporate datacentres.
In Singapore, the study found that organisations that move to cloud would see an average workload energy reduction of 76%, which amounts to 1,542 metric tonnes of carbon per megawatt of datacentre capacity per year.
This was despite the fact that Singapore organisations already operate one of the most efficient on-premise datacentres in the region by consolidating more workloads, adopting the latest server technologies, and refreshing their servers more frequently.
On-premise datacentres in Singapore, even though they operate in a tropical climate, have a self-reported power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.89, the study found. By contrast, hyperscale cloud providers tend to have PUE figures of between 1.1 and 1.4.
Organisations in other countries such as India and Australia with less efficient datacentre facilities would see the biggest reductions in their carbon footprint by moving to the cloud, the study found.
Major cloud providers such as AWS are already this by working towards procuring 100% renewable energy for all of its energy needs by 2030, a goal it is set to achieve by 2025.
