An agricultural technology firm, AgroSense, runs a crop monitoring system that processes data from thousands of soil sensors. The system requires high compute capacity during the three-month harvesting season but remains completely idle for the remaining nine months of the year. AgroSense decides to migrate this workload from an on-premises data center to AWS. Which of the following describes the primary cloud economics benefit AgroSense will achieve?
- AThe ability to trade variable operating expenses for predictable capital expenses by provisioning maximum capacity upfront.
- BThe ability to scale resources horizontally to handle long-term application growth without dynamically reducing capacity during idle periods.
- The ability to trade fixed capital expenses for variable operating expenses, paying only for the compute capacity utilized during the harvesting season.Answer
- DThe ability to automatically minimize overall costs by rehosting the application to fully serverless architectures without any manual configuration changes.
Answer
The ability to trade fixed capital expenses for variable operating expenses, paying only for the compute capacity utilized during the harvesting season.
The option stating that AgroSense can trade fixed capital expenses for variable operating expenses is correct. On AWS, businesses pay only for resources when they are active (operating expenses or OpEx), eliminating the need to invest in physical hardware upfront (capital expenses or CapEx) that remains idle for nine months of the year.
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Key Concept
Trading Capital Expenses for Operating Expenses