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Difficulty: MediumDefine the benefits of the AWS Cloud

An educational technology (EdTech) company is expanding its online learning platform to serve school districts across Europe, Asia, and South America. Instead of renting space in physical colocation facilities and purchasing server racks in each region, the company deploys its web servers and databases using AWS infrastructure. This deployment enables the company to provide low-latency access to students globally within hours, while eliminating overhead costs such as facility power, cooling, and hardware maintenance.

Which of the following benefits of the AWS Cloud are directly demonstrated by this migration? (Select TWO.)

  1. Go global in minutesAnswer
  2. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centersAnswer
  3. C
    Trade variable expenses for capital expenses to ensure predictable IT spending
  4. D
    Deploy monolithic, tightly coupled systems to simplify application management
  5. E
    Rely on manual provisioning to achieve elasticity for predictable workloads

Answer

The correct benefits demonstrated are 'Go global in minutes' and 'Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers'.
The scenario highlights two distinct benefits of migrating to AWS. First, deploying web servers and databases to serve school districts across Europe, Asia, and South America to achieve low-latency access within hours demonstrates the benefit of 'Go global in minutes'. Second, eliminating overhead costs such as facility power, cooling, and hardware maintenance demonstrates the benefit of 'Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers' because AWS manages the underlying physical infrastructure.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the scenario to identify global deployment indicators.
The text states the company provides low-latency access to students across Europe, Asia, and South America within hours, which aligns with the global footprint capabilities of AWS.
Deploying workloads worldwide quickly using the AWS network structure is the definition of global reach in minutes.
2
Analyze the scenario to identify physical infrastructure indicators.
The text states the company eliminates overhead costs related to server racks, colocation, facility power, cooling, and hardware maintenance, which aligns with offloading physical management to AWS.
AWS manages physical data centers, removing the operational burden and costs from customers.
3
Evaluate the distractors against AWS core concepts.
The distractors represent incorrect cost concepts (trading variable for capital), incorrect architectural concepts (monolithic coupling), or incorrect elasticity concepts (manual provisioning for predictable workloads).
Eliminating options with incorrect definitions or reversed logic confirms the correct selections.

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Define the benefits of the AWS Cloud
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