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See how much of your cloud bill is spent on fossil fuels ,so you can do the right thing and switch. We're in a climate crisis, remember?
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Handle "NoRegion"/"Global" charges #15

Open vsmart opened 5 years ago

vsmart commented 5 years ago

Some charges have no region info attached to them or are global.

How should these be handled? Grey by default, a third "neutral" category, or disregarded entirely?

mrchrisadams commented 5 years ago

Hmm… I think for some services, like S3 or Route53, you can't choose for them to green, as they work across regions.

If we want to make it possible for people to have 100% green and 0% grey, we'd need a neutral.

On the other hand, they still would be grey, and it would highlight that AWS needs to be entirely green, not just have some sustainable regions.

Climate Emergency and all that.

I honestly don't know for sure, but I'm leaning towards grey, to highlight you need systemic change.

Lets chat in person then make record the decision with architectural decision record, as this will likely have implications in how we present info at all levels.

https://adr.github.io/

conan commented 5 years ago

My tax is all reported as being grey, presumably because the entities that collect it are located in non-green locations; it's not clear to me how tax relates to emissions however.

mrchrisadams commented 5 years ago

Yeah, that sounds like we should probably just omit it. Thanks for flagging it :)