Advances, Systems and Applications
Table 5 Availability assessment of primary data item - server count - required under the GHG Protocol for assessment of ICT emissions
GHG Protocol Description | Data available to Cloud Vendor customers? |
|---|---|
“number of servers provisioned to host and fulfill the cloud application and data storage requirements. This includes redundancy for business continuity and disaster recovery” | Partial – the customer can determine which location (region) they deploy to. For VMs as Compute Primitives there is usually a one to one relationship between a VM running on (part of) a single physical server. However, it may not always be the same physical server if the VM is live migrated [35]. For other types of Compute Primitives e.g. Azure Functions, requests may be served across multiple servers. |