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
Originally published at ewright3.com In January 2024, the SEC's official X account was hijacked. Attackers posted a fake Bitcoin ETF approval announcement, briefly moving markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency that writes the rules on public company cybersecurity disclosures, couldn't protect its own phone number. The compromise mechanism was a SIM swap. No sophisticated explo