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Sustainability from the datacenter to the cloud with Azure
Moving on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure can reduce your carbon footprint up to 98%*
Sustainability and cloud migration
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Explore the environmental and cost benefits of Azure
Learn how much you can gain on your carbon reduction goals while lowering operating costs, running infrastructure more efficiently, and scaling as needed.
Speed progress with good migration planning
Accelerate your cloud adoption and sustainability with the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, a collection of tools, guidance, and best practices.
Track and report your cloud-based impact
After you’ve migrated to Azure, use the Emissions Impact Dashboard to assess your organization’s greenhouse gas emissions associated with Microsoft cloud services usage.
Monitor and manage what’s important—in real time
Gain critical insights fast
Track sustainability metrics up to 14 times faster and pay 94 percent less than with other cloud providers.**
Easily map your data
Create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape across environments with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage.
Connect your operations
Build and scale highly efficient operations with Azure IoT. Track and reduce energy usage in factories and buildings, monitor water and waste handling, and much more—all with built-in Azure security.
Step inside the next generation of datacenter
What’s next: energy innovations for a cleaner, cooler cloud
Liquid immersion cooling
Learn how new server cooling methods can help minimize the environmental impact of physical datacenters—reducing energy use while providing higher processing power.
Grid-interactive UPS batteries
Find out how small steps like implementing grid-interactive UPS batteries can make a big difference for meeting sustainability goals and reducing carbon footprint.
Cleaner fuels for power backup
See how switching from traditional diesel to less-carbon-intensive fuels to run datacenter backup generators helps to reach net-zero carbon emissions.
Evolving beyond an operational approach
Using Azure, you lend support for extensive efforts to make local impacts and improve environmental outcomes throughout the world.
Advancing renewable energy with Azure Digital Twins
South Korea–based Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is working to improve the efficiency of wind turbines and expand the use of wind energy.
Unifying environmental data with Power BI and Azure
French environmental services company Veolia is building sustainable, data-driven solutions that bring data together in one place to provide valuable insights.
Deploying Azure-based digital risk intelligence
Swiss insurance firm Swiss Re is addressing customers’ current and future needs—from bespoke analytics solutions to scalable platforms for increased parametric insurance and reinsurance capacity.
Sustainable, trusted cloud in your region
Be future-ready with 200+ services backed by a highly available and agile network plus reimagined hyperscale and open-source hardware development—spurring innovation in more regions than any other cloud provider.
* The results show that the Microsoft Cloud is between 22 and 93 percent more energy efficient than traditional enterprise datacenters, depending on the specific comparison being made. When taking into account our renewable energy purchases, the Microsoft Cloud is between 72 and 98 percent more carbon efficient. These savings are attributable to four key features of the Microsoft Cloud: IT operational efficiency, IT equipment efficiency, datacenter infrastructure efficiency, and renewable electricity procurement.
** Performance and price-performance claims based on data from a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by GigaOm in January 2019 for the GigaOm Analytics Field Test-H benchmark report and March 2019 for the GigaOm Analytics Field Test -DS benchmark report. Learn more.
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