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How Cloud Contracts Now Tie Discounts to Carbon Metrics
Episode 51 of The Cloud Business Podcast explores a new trend in enterprise cloud contracts: sustainability-linked discounts. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now offering lower committed-use pricing if customers meet carbon reduction targets. They examine a real-world example: a financial services firm that negotiated a 12% discount on three-year compute reservations by agreeing to shift 30% of workloads to low-carbon regions and use carbon-aware instance scheduling. The hosts discuss how this changes cloud procurement, the role of third-party carbon accounting, and…
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