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Difficulty: MediumDefine the benefits of the AWS Cloud

A biotechnology startup is developing a drug discovery platform that runs heavy genomic sequencing simulations. These workloads run for only a few days each month, requiring hundreds of compute instances, but the platform requires almost no resources for the rest of the month. Additionally, the startup must make the platform available to research teams in both North America and Europe with low latency.

Which of the following benefits of the AWS Cloud directly address this startup's requirements? (Select TWO.)

  1. Trade capital expense for variable expenseAnswer
  2. Go global in minutesAnswer
  3. C
    Trade variable expense for capital expense
  4. D
    Improve scaling by estimating and provisioning for peak resource capacity upfront
  5. E
    Deploy a tightly coupled monolithic architecture to minimize regional network complexity

Answer

Trading capital expense for variable expense, and going global in minutes are the correct AWS Cloud benefits for this scenario.
The requirement to run heavy workloads only a few days a month without purchasing hardware aligns with the benefit of trading capital expense for variable expense, allowing the company to pay only for the resources they use. The requirement to deploy the platform to users in both North America and Europe with low latency is addressed by the benefit of going global in minutes, which enables rapid multi-region deployment.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the business requirements from the scenario.
The startup needs to run high-compute workloads for only a few days a month without buying hardware, and needs to serve global users in North America and Europe with low latency.
Identifying specific requirements helps map them to corresponding cloud benefits.
2
Map the requirement of avoiding upfront hardware costs for periodic workloads to the correct AWS benefit.
This maps to 'trading capital expense for variable expense' since the startup pays only for what they consume.
The startup avoids large upfront CapEx by using variable OpEx.
3
Map the requirement of serving international users with low latency to the correct AWS benefit.
This maps to 'go global in minutes' since resources can be deployed in multiple global AWS Regions rapidly.
AWS infrastructure spanning multiple regions allows deployment close to target users worldwide.

Key Concept

AWS Cloud Benefits (specifically trading capital expense for variable expense, and going global in minutes)
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