Question

Your operations team currently provisions servers by having engineers manually click through a cloud provider's web console. Each engineer configures resources slightly differently, and when an outage occurs, no one can determine what changed or who changed it. Leadership asks you to adopt Infrastructure as Code to solve these problems. Which combination of IaC advantages MOST directly addresses these specific pain points?

Accepted Answer

Version control and consistency, because configurations are stored as code that can be reviewed, tracked in a change history, and applied identically every time

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Faster network throughput and reduced latency, because code deploys resources closer to end users automatically

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Lower cloud spend, because IaC negotiates better pricing tiers with the cloud provider on your behalf

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Elimination of the need for any cloud provider credentials, because code executes without authenticating to the provider