A SaaS company reduces its cloud carbon footprint by scoring Sustainability, eliminating idle resources, and shifting batch jobs to greener regions.
The company runs a multi-tenant SaaS platform with workloads spread across three cloud regions. Finance notices cloud costs rising, and the sustainability team needs concrete carbon data to report to the board. Idle dev and test environments are the first suspects.
The team adds the WAF++ Sustainability pillar to their quarterly review. They measure idle compute, storage tiering, and region carbon intensity, then automate shutdown schedules and region selection for non-critical batch jobs.
Over two quarters, idle resource costs drop by 34%, and the Sustainability PASS score improves from 38 to 67. Carbon metrics are now part of the engineering OKR dashboard.
WAF++ now includes an eighth pillar — AI-assisted architecture reviews, autonomous remediation, and policy-aware agents for secure cloud operations.
