Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
Enterprise identity used to have a fairly stable center of gravity. A user authenticated. An application received a token. The token carried scopes or claims. The backend enforced what that application was allowed to do. That model was never trivial, but it was legible. Agents are making it less so. An AI agent is not just another software client. It can plan, delegate, chain tools, invoke other a