Smarter Cloud, Greener IT: How Txture Supports Sustainable Cloud Modernization

As cloud environments scale, two priorities are rising to the top for IT leaders and cloud architects:

1. Optimize cloud costs with real-time FinOps practices
2. Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint with GreenOps strategies But many organizations struggle with a lack of transparency. What’s really driving costs and emissions? How do you take action without disrupting operations? That’s where Txture comes in. Empowering you to manage cost and sustainability in one unified platform, and to modernize your cloud infrastructure with confidence.

How Txture Calculates Cloud Carbon Footprint

Let’s face it: cloud sustainability metrics are always estimates. But the quality of those estimates depends on your data sources, methodology, and transparency. At Txture, we’ve chosen to base our methodology on the research of the Cloud Carbon Footprint Project, enriched with additional data sources to improve accuracy and regional relevance.

We integrate:

• Electricity Maps data to factor in carbon intensity of energy production by geographic location
• Processor benchmarking data from chip manufacturers for hardware-level granularity
• Runtime and usage data from cloud APIs across AWS, Azure, and GCP

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This allows us to estimate cloud resource emissions down to the chip level, including:

1. Energy consumption based on

• Runtime hours
• Processor, RAM, and storage
• Cloud resource type

2. PUE/DCiE values Overhead for power supply, cooling, etc. in data centers

3. Carbon intensity per region How much CO₂ is produced to generate the required electricity

By standardizing the methodology across providers like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and continually improving the model, we give our users reliable and comparable data with actionable insights for reduction and optimization.

FinOps-Driven Cloud Cost Visibility for Every Business Unit

You can’t optimize what you can’t see, so the first crucial step in managing cloud-related costs is understanding exactly what you’re spending and why. However, many organizations struggle to accurately attribute costs across business units, applications, or services. To tackle this challenge, Txture now offers automated ingestion of cloud cost and usage data from AWS, Azure, and GCP, aligned with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS™), making cost visibility clearer and more actionable than ever before.

This enables you to:

• Break down cloud spend by application, project, or business unit
• Attribute shared service costs using weighted distribution
• Combine financial data with resource dependencies and architecture

Visualize:

• Historic and real-time OPEX
• CAPEX, license costs, and runtime cost
• Carbon emissions by service, unit, or geography

This level of financial observability empowers teams across the business to take ownership of cloud costs and start optimizing immediately.

Cost Optimization Insights and Modernization Recommendations

This allows you to pinpoint high-impact modernization candidates and follow through with concrete steps, not just analytics.

Start Your FinOps + GreenOps Journey Today

Whether you’re just getting started with FinOps or scaling your GreenOps initiatives, Txture delivers value from day one:

• Real-time cloud cost and carbon visibility
• Application-aware cloud architecture modeling
• Actionable recommendations for optimization and modernization

Txture Recognized as a Gartner® Cool Vendor™

Txture was named a Cool Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in IT Environmental Sustainability Measuring and Reporting. We believe this recognition confirms our commitment to helping enterprises align IT modernization with sustainability goals without compromise.

Want to reduce cloud costs and cut emissions?

Let’s talk about how Txture can support your journey toward smarter, greener IT.

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