Sustainability is Elastic: A year of progress and new opportunities

Internally, we’ve worked closely with key teams to help operationalize programs that will play a big role in our future commitments. For example, our Workplaces team enhanced our sustainable site-selection criteria and deepened our engagement with existing office locations to make sure we have actionable data that’s needed for managing our impacts. Our Strategic Sourcing team also started implementing a supplier engagement strategy to collaborate with our most carbon-intensive vendors on carbon reduction opportunities. In support of all of these efforts, we onboarded a new data management tool that will keep our sustainability programs informed with the latest measurement advancements and optimized for the future. 

2023 was also a big year for the advancement of new regulatory requirements, which has accelerated going into 2024. Our Legal and Business Integrity teams continue to be invaluable partners as we navigate the significant changes to the regulatory landscape.

The level of enthusiasm and expertise my fellow Elasticians bring to our work makes for a truly rewarding sustainability journey. It also means we have the support we need to dive into new opportunities in this space. I’m especially excited by our product enhancements — such as Elastic Cloud Serverless — which delivers superior performance with a more efficient and sustainable cloud infrastructure footprint thanks to the Search AI Lake architecture. 

I hope you’ll download the report and share feedback as we look ahead!