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Difficulty: MediumDefine the benefits of the AWS Cloud

A retail analytics firm runs monthly batch processing jobs on self-managed physical servers. The volume of data fluctuates significantly each month, leading to frequent job failures due to under-provisioned hardware, or wasted costs from over-provisioned hardware sitting idle. Additionally, the development team has to wait several weeks for the procurement and setup of new hardware whenever they want to test new analytics algorithms.

The firm decides to migrate these workloads to AWS, enabling them to launch test environments in minutes and automatically scale resources to match the workload demand.

Which of the following benefits of the AWS Cloud are directly demonstrated in this scenario? (Select TWO.)

  1. Increase speed and agilityAnswer
  2. Stop guessing capacityAnswer
  3. C
    Trade variable expenses for fixed capital expenses
  4. D
    Implement tightly coupled monolithic architectures
  5. E
    Eliminate the need for dynamic elasticity by utilizing permanent vertical scaling

Answer

The correct benefits are 'Increase speed and agility' and 'Stop guessing capacity'.
The correct answers are the benefits 'Increase speed and agility' and 'Stop guessing capacity'. The ability to provision resources in minutes rather than waiting weeks for hardware procurement directly represents increased speed and agility. Furthermore, automatically scaling resources to match the exact workload demand instead of under-provisioning or over-provisioning demonstrates the benefit of stopping guessing capacity.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the business challenges in the scenario.
The firm struggles with waiting weeks for hardware procurement to test new algorithms, and either under-provisioning (causing failures) or over-provisioning (idle hardware costs).
Understanding the initial problems helps map them to the corresponding AWS Cloud benefits.
2
Map the migration outcomes to the defined benefits of the AWS Cloud.
Launching test environments in minutes maps to 'Increase speed and agility'. Dynamically adjusting resources to match the workload demand maps to 'Stop guessing capacity'.
These outcomes directly resolve the key pain points described in the scenario.

Key Concept

Benefits of the AWS Cloud
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