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Seems they're aiming to capture the market of people who want "green" clouds, not "European" clouds. Besides, if you just want better and cheaper AWS, there is
by capableweb 3y ago
Seems they're aiming to capture the market of people who want "green" clouds, not "European" clouds. Besides, if you just want better and cheaper AWS, there is so many options already.
- laurencerowe 3y agoDoesn't look like being a green cloud will be a differentiator for very long. "Amazon is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy and is on a path to powering our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025" https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/renewable-energy https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/renewable...
- adrian_mrd 3y agoThis is for Amazon as a whole (so not AWS) but recent news (26 May 2023) seems that they are targeting net-zero by 2040: "The ecommerce giant recently backed out of a commitment to make 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030. Amazon said in a statement that it would roll this goal into a broader Climate Pledge to reach net-zero carbon across all its operations by 2040. That's a decade later than the 50% goal, which was called "Shipment Zero" at the time." [0] [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-shipment-zero-gives-up-most-important-part-climate-pledge-2023-5?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-shipment-zero-gives-u... Also worth noting that this is a target. And targets can always shift eg 2040, 2050, etc
- re-thc 3y ago> Seems they're aiming to capture the market of people who want "green" clouds, not "European" clouds. Just make a green colored logo and website?