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Recovering your Cloud services data ☁️
Recovering your Cloud services data ☁️

How to recover your Cloud services data

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Written by Support @Greenly
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In many cases, Cloud services represent a very important part of the companies' carbon footprint, especially in the Digital sector.

The Greenly platform allows you to analyze the impact of these services at a very large scale by analyzing your transactions in your accounting file. This remains an estimate whose uncertainty can be very large depending on the Cloud providers you deal with, their infrastructure, the types of services you benefit from, etc.

We therefore propose to go further by analyzing your detailed service invoices. These invoices are not simple documents about monetary transactions only, but documents specifying the nature of the services you consume :

  • Type of service: compute, SSD storage, HDD, transfer, etc.

  • Description of the hardware: type of component, name of the computing instance, etc.

  • Quantities used per service: virtual processor hours consumed, bandwidth, storage capacity used (GB), throughput...

  • And potentially much more information!

In order to send us this cloud data, two possibilities exist:

  • The API connection.

  • Manual retrieval of cloud invoices – This option is only for cases where the API connection is impossible, and can lead to lower precision in the cloud study (Here are examples of cloud invoices)

We recommend that you use the API connection (which is available for 3 major cloud providers) to speed up the analysis. As a second option, manual retrieval is possible.


Examples of detailed Cloud invoices

If you are using one (or more) of the following 4 cloud providers, please follow the specific procedure listed below.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Please follow the following procedure (10min) to send us your AWS data. The requested External ID is "yourcompanyname_2328".

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

OVH Cloud

You can follow this procedure provided by OVH to retrieve your detailed invoices.

Microsoft AZURE

You can follow this procedure provided to share us your Microsoft AZURE data.

If you have any questions, please contact the Support Team at support@greenly.earth.

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