In a blog, AWS cited an example that if 25 per cent of the 1,200 largest publicly-traded businesses in India put one megawatt (MW) of compute workload – which is a quarter of an average enterprise IT workload – into a cloud-powered entirely by renewable energy, it would save the equivalent of a year’s worth of emissions from 1,60,000 Indian households.

”Customers in APAC who move compute workloads to the AWS Cloud can significantly reduce their carbon footprint, benefiting from the net effect of all our sustainability efforts,” AWS Head of Energy Policy (the Asia Pacific and Japan) Ken Haig said.