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Normative Helps Businesses Reduce Emissions Using AWS

“By revolutionizing how businesses collect, report, and understand their carbon emissions, we’ll lead the charge into the net-zero frontier together with AWS.”

Ross Doherty
Director of Portfolio and Ecosystem, Normative

In a world where every business, however large or small, needs to better understand its impact on the environment, Normative provides the solution. The company, which aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2030, runs its software-as-a-service carbon accounting engine on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—empowering customers with the insight to visualize, manage, and cut emissions. With managed services and serverless technology, Normative can focus on innovation and get to market fast.

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Building on AWS to Boost Decarbonization

With Normative’s carbon accounting software, organizations can design effective emission reduction strategies to help them achieve internal and external sustainability goals. In 2024 alone, Normative clients calculated 67 million tons of carbon emissions, which is equivalent to Singapore’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2022. To meet the needs of a widespread client base, Normative must have a highly available, resilient, and secure environment. The startup built its software-as-a-service solution on AWS in 2014 to benefit from the global infrastructure, innovative tools, and managed services, which would support its go-to-market ambitions.

Speed and Reliability in the Cloud

Using AWS, Normative keeps maintenance requirements low, increases staff productivity, and speeds its product development lifecycle. “Our engineers can focus on features rather than infrastructure and operations,” says Christian Holm, chief technology officer at Normative.

For its database, the company uses Amazon Aurora, which provides unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale. The Normative team supports large data processing spikes with Amazon Aurora Serverless, an on-demand, autoscaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. Migrating to AWS serverless solutions took no lead time and required no hardware setup costs, which increased the solution’s speed to market. Holm says, “It’s simple for us to scale using AWS, which saves us money.”

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Normative’s customers also benefit. Instead of assessing their environmental impact data once a year, they’re able to easily track progress weekly, which helps them keep emission reduction strategies relevant. Based on data from 2022–2023, Normative customers reported a median drop in their overall greenhouse gas emissions of 4.3 percent. “We benefit from high availability, security, and integrity using AWS, which helps us maintain customer trust,” says Holm.

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Working Towards a Better Climate Future

Normative is excited to bring its solution to more businesses, supported by AWS and a shared belief in sustainability through innovation. It’s now planning to expand the reach of its carbon reduction solution by making it available on AWS Marketplace, where organizations discover, deploy, and manage software that runs on AWS. And, further, through the AWS ISV Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for organizations that provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. Ross Doherty, Normative’s director of portfolio and ecosystem, says, “We’ve created a strong partnership with AWS over a number of years, and we look forward to continuing this. By revolutionizing how businesses collect, report, and understand their carbon emissions, we’ll lead the charge into the net-zero frontier together with AWS.”

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AWS ISV Accelerate Program

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Amazon Elastic Container Service

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Amazon Aurora

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