Question

A finance director is evaluating a move from an on-premises datacenter to Azure. She wants to eliminate large upfront hardware purchases and instead treat IT spending as an ongoing operational expense that scales with actual usage. Which cloud computing characteristic best describes this financial shift?

Accepted Answer

Moving from a capital expenditure (CapEx) model to an operational expenditure (OpEx) model

Answer

Adopting a high availability service-level agreement (SLA)

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Implementing horizontal auto-scaling for compute resources

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Using the shared responsibility model to reduce security duties