Cut your Azure carbon the same way you cut cost
Sustainability targets need numbers a finance and ESG team can stand behind. Turbo360 estimates the carbon footprint of every Azure subscription, ranks the actions that bring it down, and shows the dollar saving next to the emissions saved, so a green decision is also a budget decision.
The problem, solved
What teams bring to us on carbon
Each pain has a concrete outcome in Turbo360, with the carbon
and the cost answered in the same place.
ESG needs an emissions number
Report carbon with confidence
Turbo360 estimates CO2e across compute, storage, networking, and data services and attributes it to each subscription, so the number you give ESG and finance stands up to scrutiny.
Green work loses to the budget
Cut carbon and cost in one action
Most carbon wins are cost wins. Idle and over-provisioned resources waste money and emissions together, so a single fix counts on both ledgers.
Net-zero targets have no owner
Give every team a number to move
Each subscription is measured against its own history, so a reduction is visible per owner and a net-zero commitment has real figures behind it.
Across the platform
Sustainability is built into the tools
you already use
There is no separate carbon product to buy or learn. Sustainability features live inside the Turbo360 modules your teams work in
every day, so the footprint sits right next to the cost and the documentation it relates to.
Cost Analyzer
Carbon Optimizer Agent
An AI agent that reads any resource, estimates its carbon footprint, explains the drivers behind it, and returns ranked actions to bring it down, each sized in both CO₂ and dollars.
Cost Analyzer
Lightswitch Ops
Schedules turn VMs, App Service plans, Fabric capacities, and databases off outside working hours, so idle resources stop burning carbon and cost overnight, then come back before the next workday.
Azure Documenter
Sustainability report
An always-current carbon summary per subscription, with an emissions trend and ranked optimizations, ready to hand to ESG and finance as part of your governance pack.
Cost Analyzer · Carbon Optimizer Agent
Three experts in one agent
Point the Carbon Optimizer Agent at any resource and it returns the carbon footprint, the drivers behind it, and the ranked actions to cut it. It is a FinOps expert, a sustainability expert, and an Azure expert rolled into one.
Carbon optimizer recommendations
Resource Type
Virtual Machine
Top Carbon Driver
Always-on D2s_v6 · 0.48% CPU
Estimated CO₂ (Approx)
8 kg/mo
Tree Equivalent (Approx)
~0.4 trees / year
Current Carbon Footprint
This VM is a Standard_D2s_v6 Windows Server 2022 instance running in Sweden Central, which is a Low carbon-intensity region. Using a rough always-on profile of 730 hrs/mo at about 12 W average load for this small VM class and the observed 0.48% average CPU, the footprint is about 9 kWh/mo, translating to roughly 8 kg CO₂/mo with a low-region grid factor. That is about 0.4 trees per year equivalent, so the absolute emissions are already low, but there is still room to reduce idle compute.
Key Carbon Drivers — Top Contributors to This Resource’s CO₂ Footprint 3 ITEMS
Always-on D2s_v6 at tiny load
The VM runs continuously while average CPU is only 0.48%, which means most of the allocated compute is sitting idle and still drawing power.
Windows VM with no off-hours schedule
The resource name and RG context are scheduler-themed, but there is no actual stop/start evidence in the metrics, so the VM appears to be left running all day.
Low-carbon Sweden Central region
Hosting in Sweden Central materially reduces emissions versus many Azure regions, so the same always-on footprint produces less CO₂ than in a higher-carbon grid.
Optimization Opportunities
Schedule off-hours shutdown
Because average CPU is only 0.48%, a daily shutdown for nights and weekends should remove most of the VM’s idle energy use. On a typical business-hours schedule, this can cut emissions by roughly 60% to 75% depending on uptime reduction.
DO NOW
Downsize to B1s or B2s
The current D2s_v6 is far larger than the observed demand pattern, and a burst-capable B-series VM should be sufficient if this host is only running light scheduler or utility tasks. A move to B1s or B2s can lower energy draw by around 30% to 55% if memory and I/O remain comfortable.
REVIEW
Convert to an auto-stop dev/test pattern
The naming and RG pattern suggest a scheduler-style workload, so if this is a non-production host it should be stopped when idle and started only for planned runs. That would reduce carbon without changing region or architecture, and it is especially valuable given the lack of sustained CPU load.
REVIEW
Keep Sweden Central placement
The region is already in the Low carbon band, which is the right choice for this workload today. Moving to a higher-carbon region would raise emissions for no likely performance benefit, so the carbon-optimal stance is to keep the current geography unless residency needs change.
NO ACTION
FinOps expert
Ties every carbon action to a dollar figure and ranks it against the rest of your optimization work, so reducing emissions earns its place in the budget.
Sustainability expert
Translates energy use into CO₂ and tree-equivalents, names the top carbon drivers, and frames each action as the emissions it removes per month.
Azure expert
Knows VM SKUs, regions, and grid carbon intensity, so its guidance fits the resource in front of it, from off-hours schedules to a lower-carbon region.
Cost Analyzer · Scheduling
Lightswitch Ops: switch resources
off when no one is using them
The biggest carbon and cost lever in non-production is the simplest one: stop paying to run resources nobody is using. Turbo360 scheduling turns VMs, App Service plans, Fabric capacities, and databases off or scales them down outside working hours, then brings them back before the next workday.
One schedule, every resource type
A single off-hours schedule shuts down VMs, downsizes plans, pauses capacities, and downgrades databases, with no manual steps once it is set.
An agent that advises per resource
Not sure a resource can run on a schedule? The AI Scheduling Agent reads its real usage pattern and tells you whether to stop and start it, resize it, or leave it alone.
Every paused hour is carbon saved
Idle compute burns energy and emissions for nothing. Pausing it outside hours cuts the footprint and the bill in the same move.
Cost Analyzer · Rightsizing
See every idle and oversized
resource, costed in carbon
Rightsizing brings Azure Advisor recommendations and Turbo360’s own recommendations into one ranked list, so the resources to downgrade or shut down are easy to find. Each row carries the monthly spend it recovers and the carbon it removes, so the green case and the budget case are the same case.
Advisor and Turbo360 in one list
Native Azure Advisor recommendations sit alongside custom Turbo360 recommendations, so idle and underutilized resources surface in a single ranked view.
Every recommendation carbon-costed
Next to the monthly saving, each row shows the kgCO2e you avoid, so you can rank the work by emissions as easily as by dollars.
Go deeper with AI
Open any resource in the Carbon Optimizer Agent for the full footprint, or use Explain with AI to understand a recommendation in plain language before you act.
Azure Documenter · Carbon Summary Report
A carbon summary the whole
business can read
The Carbon Summary Report gives a high-level view of where the company stands on carbon, in plain numbers anyone can follow. It is built for the non-expert: month-over-month totals, the change between them, and a tree-absorption equivalent that makes the figure tangible.
Made for non-experts
No FinOps or sustainability background needed. The totals, the change between months, and a tree-equivalent tell the story at a glance.
Popular with MSPs
Managed service providers hand it to customers as high-level evidence for sustainability targets and audits, generated per tenant.
Always current
Generated from the live environment on the schedule you set, so the carbon number in the report always matches the estate.
Azure Documenter · Carbon Optimizations Report
A report of every carbon
optimization, ready to share
The Carbon Optimizations Report lists the optimizations Azure Advisor surfaces across the estate, each with the emissions and the spend it would save. It turns Advisor’s raw guidance into a clean, shareable document.
Straight from Azure Advisor
Pulls the optimization recommendations Azure Advisor identifies and presents them as a ranked, readable list, not a console export.
White-label for customers
MSPs brand the report as their own and share it with each customer as evidence of the savings and carbon reductions on the table.
Carbon and cost on every line
Each optimization carries both the CO2e avoided and the spend recovered, so a customer sees the green win and the budget win together.
Trusted by leading Azure service provider worldwide
“Turbo360 gives our MSP partners clear visibility into Azure costs, with smarter alerts and proactive management they can pass straight to their customers.”
James Reed
Azure Sales Manager
“We had to consolidate data manually, and the reports were always a snapshot—never real-time. Moreover, our customers couldn’t access their own data, making it hard for them to understand their costs.”
Alex Tilgenkamp
Cloud Architect
Questions
Common questions
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How does Turbo360 estimate Azure carbon?
Emissions are estimated across compute, storage, networking, and data services, then attributed to each Azure subscription, so every team sees the footprint of what it owns.
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Can I report emissions by team or department?
Yes. Carbon is mapped to the subscription that produced it and can be grouped the way your business is organized, so the number lands with the owner who can act on it.
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Do carbon optimizations also save money?
Most do. Idle decommissions and rightsizing recover spend and emissions together, and each recommendation shows both figures so the business case is clear.
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Where does the sustainability report live?
It is part of Azure Documenter, generated from your live environment and kept current, so the emissions number in the report always matches the estate.
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