Question

A retail company runs a fixed fleet of on-premises servers sized for its peak holiday shopping season. For most of the year these servers sit largely idle, but the company still pays for the full capacity year-round. As part of migrating to AWS, the company wants to follow the design principle that most directly addresses this waste. Which AWS Well-Architected Framework Cost Optimization design principle should the company apply?

Accepted Answer

Adopt a consumption model, paying only for the computing resources actually used and scaling capacity up or down with demand

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Perform operations as code to automate the deployment of the server fleet

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Automatically recover from failure by monitoring key performance indicators

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Improve security by applying encryption at all layers of the architecture