Question

A retail company currently operates its e-commerce platform on-premises with servers sized to handle peak holiday traffic. During most of the year, the servers run at only 20% capacity. The company is considering migrating to AWS. Which cloud economics principle would provide the MOST significant cost benefit for this scenario?

Accepted Answer

The ability to pay only for the compute capacity actually used through variable costs rather than fixed infrastructure costs

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The elimination of all operational expenses by transferring infrastructure management to AWS

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The requirement to purchase Reserved Instances for three years to match current on-premises capacity

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The need to maintain the same server capacity year-round to ensure application availability