Frequently asked questions

Isn't the reporting offered by cloud provider sufficient ?

For several reasons (scope, transparency, granularity), we consider that today's reporting of major public cloud provider does not fully answers to our needs. See Challenges and What we need.

A comparison of what is reported by default is addressed with more detail in this Boavizta article: Understanding the results of cloud providers' carbon calculators | Boavizta.

You may also refer to the academic paper that describes the Boavizta cloud methodology: BoaviztAPI: a bottom-up model to assess the environmental impacts of cloud services.