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Track your carbon footprint

The carbon footprint page shows estimates of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with service usage in your organization to help you monitor and reduce your emissions.

The estimates are powered by OxygenIT, a European climate-tech company that measures and optimizes IT and cloud emissions. OxygenIT works with hyperscalers, cloud providers, and enterprises to improve transparency and efficiency.

Emissions are calculated for services in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Services in other cloud providers are not included in the estimates.

Emissions are measured in metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent, which includes multiple greenhouse gasses. OxygenIT uses region-specific electricity data from each data center's energy mix and hardware efficiency metrics. The estimates follow recognized methodologies from frameworks like the Cloud Carbon Footprint and the Green Software Foundation.

The estimates are not direct measurements of actual emissions. Use these estimates for internal monitoring to track trends and identify optimization opportunities, not for external assurance or regulatory reporting.

Data privacy​

All computations are done within Aiven’s environment using anonymized usage data such as CPU, storage, network, and memory for each of your active services.

No data is transferred to OxygenIT. Aiven processes all data in compliance with GDPR and contractual data protection terms between Aiven and OxygenIT.

View carbon emissions data​

You must be an organization admin to access this feature.

  1. In your organization, click Admin.
  2. Click Carbon footprint.

In the Carbon emissions explorer, you can filter the data by:

  • Time range: View emissions for a predefined range or choose a custom date range.
  • Billing groups: View emissions for all services in the projects assigned to a specific billing group.
  • Projects: View emissions for all services in a specific project.

Reduce your carbon footprint​

Emissions estimates are based on the actual use of your Aiven services and the energy mix in each cloud region. Compute time, storage, network traffic, and data center efficiency affect energy consumption.

Changes in workloads or cloud regions impact your footprint. Electricity from high-emission sources like coal and extended service use increase your carbon footprint.

To reduce your carbon footprint, you can:

  • Optimize resource usage by scaling down unused services.
  • Choose greener regions powered by renewable energy.
  • Use tiered storage and more aggressive caching.
  • Use disk autoscaler to increase storage only when needed.