Question

A retail company currently runs its own data center and buys enough physical servers upfront to handle the busiest shopping day of the year. For most of the year these servers sit at roughly 20% utilization, but the company still pays for all the hardware, power, and cooling regardless of usage. Leadership wants to understand the primary financial advantage of moving this workload to a public cloud pay-as-you-go model. Which statement best describes that advantage?

Accepted Answer

The company pays only for the compute resources it actually consumes, avoiding the cost of idle capacity provisioned for peak demand.

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The company gains full ownership of the physical servers in the cloud provider's data center, increasing its long-term asset value.

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The cloud provider guarantees a fixed monthly bill that never changes regardless of how much the company scales up or down.

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The company eliminates all responsibility for securing and configuring its applications once workloads run in the cloud.