Question

Difficulty: EasyUnderstand concepts of cloud economics

A community theater company plans to migrate its ticketing platform to AWS. The platform receives extremely high volumes of traffic during the first hour of ticket releases for major shows, but experiences negligible traffic during the rest of the month. The theater needs to avoid paying for idle infrastructure and eliminate upfront server procurement costs.

Which two AWS cloud economics concepts or benefits should the theater leverage to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

  1. Replacing upfront capital expenses with variable operational expensesAnswer
  2. Leveraging elasticity to dynamically adjust resource capacity to match actual demandAnswer
  3. C
    Converting variable operational expenses into fixed capital expenses to guarantee predictable budgeting
  4. D
    Permanently provisioning resources at peak capacity levels to guarantee scalability
  5. E
    Using a rehosting migration strategy to automatically redesign the application into serverless functions

Answer

The theater company should replace upfront capital expenses with variable operational expenses, and leverage elasticity to dynamically adjust resource capacity to match actual demand.
The correct options identify two core AWS cloud economics benefits: shifting upfront capital expenses (CapEx) to variable operational expenses (OpEx), and using elasticity to scale resources dynamically. By trading capital expenses for operational expenses, the theater avoids upfront server purchasing costs. By leveraging elasticity, the ticketing system dynamically provisions resources to handle the sudden burst of ticket buyers and downscales during idle periods to prevent wasted expenditures.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the financial constraint of avoiding upfront server procurement costs.
Trading upfront hardware costs for variable billing maps to the concept of shifting capital expenses (CapEx) to operational expenses (OpEx).
AWS allows businesses to pay as they go rather than buying hardware before using it.
2
Analyze the operational constraint of handling high traffic surges while minimizing idle resource costs.
Scaling resources up and down to match demand maps to the concept of elasticity.
Elasticity prevents paying for unused, running infrastructure during periods of low activity.

Key Concept

AWS Cloud Economics (CapEx to OpEx shift and Elasticity)
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