Friction
Carbon reporting is annual, while cloud decisions are weekly.
For sustainability and ESG teams
Make cloud efficiency and carbon reporting part of the architecture baseline, not a separate spreadsheet owned by someone else.
- Carbon-aware architecture
- 4 relevant pillars
- 4 starting points
What gets in the way.
Sustainability targets fail when the workload owner cannot see the trade-off. Wombat connects efficient resource use, region choice, idle elimination and reporting evidence to the same controls the engineering team already reviews.
Friction
Efficiency improvements are not connected to cost or reliability outcomes.
Friction
Region choice is driven by latency and price, not carbon intensity.
Friction
Evidence for ESG reporting is assembled outside the engineering workflow.
What changes with a shared baseline.
The goal is not another dashboard. It is a control model that engineering, security and finance can all use in the same conversation.
- Efficiency and carbon signals in the same baseline as cost and reliability.
- Controls for idle elimination, scheduling and region awareness.
- A repeatable evidence trail for ESG and procurement reporting.
- A language that connects sustainability targets to workload decisions.
Pillars that matter for this role.
Start with the pillars closest to the decisions you own, then use the scorecard to see the whole system.
WAF-SUS
Sustainability
The dedicated pillar for carbon measurement, efficiency, scheduling and reporting.
Read the Sustainability pillar →WAF-PERF
Performance Efficiency
Utilisation and right-sizing are the practical levers behind efficiency.
Read the Performance Efficiency pillar →WAF-COST
Cost Optimization
The cheapest resource is often the one that is not running.
Read the Cost Optimization pillar →WAF-REL
Reliability
Efficiency changes need a reliability guardrail, not a blind cut.
Read the Reliability pillar →Start here.
Pick the artifact closest to your next decision. Each one leads back to the same control model.
Sustainability pillar
Open →Sustainability rightsizing use case
Open →Controls catalogue
Open →Comparison with provider frameworks
Open →Put carbon into the architecture review
Score efficiency, region choice and idle waste together, then turn the gaps into changes the workload owner can ship.
Other roles.
The same control model is read differently by each role. Use the adjacent page to find the questions that matter to the rest of the team.
Golden paths without lock-in
For platform teams
Give product teams a paved road that is secure, observable and portable — without turning the platform team into a ticket queue.
Open the role page →Evidence, not assurance theatre
For CISOs and security leaders
Translate cloud architecture into a risk posture the board can understand, the auditor can test and the engineering team can actually change.
Open the role page →Unit economics, not just spend
For FinOps and cloud economics
Connect cost decisions to reliability, performance and sustainability — so the cheapest change is not always the one that creates the next incident.
Open the role page →