LuminaAero, an aerospace engineering company, runs high-performance simulation workloads for two weeks at the end of every quarter. On-premises, they must maintain a dedicated cluster of servers that remains idle for the rest of the quarter. Which concept of cloud economics represents the primary financial benefit if LuminaAero migrates this workload to AWS?
- AConverting variable operational costs into predictable, long-term capital expenditures (CapEx) to increase asset ownership.
- BMaintaining a constant pool of peak-capacity resources throughout the year to eliminate scaling latency.
- Benefiting from cloud elasticity by provisioning resources only when simulations run, shifting fixed capital expenditures (CapEx) to variable operating expenditures (OpEx).Answer
- DCommitting to a three-year, All Upfront Reserved Instance contract to cover the simulation servers during their idle periods.
Answer
Benefiting from cloud elasticity by provisioning resources only when simulations run, shifting fixed capital expenditures (CapEx) to variable operating expenditures (OpEx).
Leveraging cloud elasticity to provision resources only during the active simulation weeks allows the company to pay for what they use, changing fixed capital expenses (CapEx) of maintaining on-premises hardware into variable operational expenses (OpEx).
Step-by-Step Solution
Key Concept
Shifting CapEx to OpEx and leveraging cloud elasticity for variable workloads.