Question

Difficulty: EasyUnderstand concepts of cloud economics

A local bakery chain plans to migrate its legacy inventory management application from on-premises servers to the AWS Cloud. By doing so, the company expects to eliminate the need to purchase physical hardware upfront.

Which two of the following represent the primary cloud economics benefits of this migration? (Select TWO.)

  1. Trading capital expenses (CapEx) for variable operating expenses (OpEx)Answer
  2. Benefiting from lower variable costs due to AWS's massive economies of scaleAnswer
  3. C
    Increasing capital expenses (CapEx) to secure long-term ownership of physical infrastructure
  4. D
    Using On-Demand EC2 instances to guarantee the lowest cost for long-term, predictable workloads
  5. E
    Rehosting the application to automatically convert it into a fully serverless architecture

Answer

Trading capital expenses (CapEx) for variable operating expenses (OpEx) and benefiting from lower variable costs due to AWS's massive economies of scale
The correct choices explain that cloud economics allows a business to trade capital expenses (CapEx) for variable operating expenses (OpEx), reducing upfront costs. Furthermore, customers benefit from lower variable costs because AWS passes on savings achieved through its massive economies of scale.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the financial impact of moving from purchasing physical servers upfront to paying for resources dynamically.
Identify that this shift represents moving from Capital Expenses (CapEx) to Operating Expenses (OpEx).
Understanding CapEx vs OpEx is a fundamental principle of cloud economics.
2
Evaluate how AWS aggregates resource usage across millions of customers to lower costs.
Identify that AWS passes these savings to customers as lower variable costs due to economies of scale.
Recognizing the cost advantage of AWS's massive scale helps explain the pricing benefit.

Key Concept

Cloud Economics and Cost Optimization Pillars
Estimated Time:1m 0s
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