A wise man once said “We used the cloud for our digital transformation. Why not use it for a sustainability transformation as well?” (Adrian Cockcroft, VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture 2021).
All major cloud providers have undertaken significant efforts to improve the sustainability of the cloud but the ultimate responsibility for sustainable use in the cloud is on us as a tech community. Theoretically, Kubernetes allows for highly precise resource utilization and minimal cloud waste. But in reality, there are many good reasons why we have not yet reached this goal.