Case study
Finnish open-source data platform Aiven is on a mission to help organisations extract maximum value from their data. Two years on from launching their first cloud carbon footprint tool, the team share why Scope 3 cloud emissions are so often invisible, and how their new GreenOps integration is putting them in front of customers, daily and project by project.
In 2023, we launched our first open-source carbon footprint solution: a tool that measured and exposed the emissions of workloads running on Aiven, broken down per project and per hour. Major customers in retail, energy and transportation used it to migrate workloads to cleaner data centre regions, and to integrate environmental objectives into how they designed their data infrastructure.
Two years on, the next iteration is live. As cloud infrastructure grows more complex and AI workloads drive energy consumption higher, organisations need better visibility over both their carbon emissions and their energy costs.
The Scope 3 blind spot
Scope 3 cloud emissions remain largely invisible, buried in shared infrastructure and fragmented supply chains. For most organisations, they surface only in rough quarterly estimates from third-party providers.
A real-time GreenOps view
Earlier this year we launched a GreenOps integration that combines granular, real-time operational data from Aiven (usage, workloads and services at the project level) with OxygenIT's ISO-certified carbon modelling methodology. Unlike generic emissions tools, the integration maps actual consumption patterns directly to their carbon and energy cost impact, daily and project by project, within the Aiven Console.
This gives customers something previously unavailable: a precise, actionable GreenOps view of their cloud use, enabling them to continuously optimise workloads for both energy efficiency and cost.
What's next
The integration only went live a few weeks ago, so we don't have detailed KPIs to share yet. What we are seeing is rising interest from some of our top customers, with discovery sessions lined up over the coming weeks and customer case studies planned to follow.