Cloud Computing: Future possibilities
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Environmental signals in workload decisions
Possible future · No delivery date predicted · near-term possibility; no promised delivery date or outcome.
Teams may increasingly combine carbon-intensity measurements with cost and reliability when placing or scheduling flexible work. Whether that reduces emissions depends on measurement quality, workload flexibility and the hardware actually used. This is a possible application of the methodology, not a universal capability claim.
Software Carbon Intensity specification — Green Software Foundation · Checked
More adaptable distributed infrastructure
Possible future · Long-term possibility; unresolved · long-term possibility; no promised delivery date or outcome.
A more interoperable cloud ecosystem could make it easier to move suitable workloads between environments. Persistent data, identity boundaries and service-specific behavior remain barriers. Neither seamless migration nor lower cost is guaranteed merely by adopting an orchestration platform.
10 Years of Kubernetes: project and 1.0 history — Kubernetes contributors · Source date: 2024-06-06 · Checked
Shared responsibility in the cloud — Microsoft Learn · Checked