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Zorluk: OrtaUnderstand concepts of cloud economics

A digital marketing firm, LeadFlow, is migrating its ad-tracking application to the AWS Cloud. Currently, the company owns and maintains physical servers in a private colocation facility, which requires significant upfront investments and multi-year lease agreements. By moving to AWS, LeadFlow wants to replace these fixed technology costs with variable expenses that scale in real time based on active ad campaigns. Which of the following describes this economic transition?

  1. A
    Replacing variable operating expenses (OpEx) with upfront capital expenses (CapEx)
  2. B
    Utilizing cloud elasticity to convert variable operational costs into depreciable capital assets
  3. Replacing upfront capital expenses (CapEx) with variable operating expenses (OpEx)Cevap
  4. D
    Replatforming the application to establish permanent, fixed capital expenditures

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Replacing upfront capital expenses (CapEx) with variable operating expenses (OpEx)
The correct answer is replacing upfront capital expenses (CapEx) with variable operating expenses (OpEx). In cloud computing, instead of investing heavily in physical data centers and servers before knowing how they will be used, businesses can pay only for the resources they use, which transitions costs from capital expenditures (CapEx) to operating expenditures (OpEx).

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1
Analyze the financial transition from on-premises hosting to AWS Cloud hosting.
On-premises hosting relies on upfront physical infrastructure purchases (capital expenses), whereas AWS Cloud hosting operates on a pay-as-you-go model (operating expenses).
Understanding the difference between capital expenses (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx) is fundamental to evaluating cloud economics.
2
Evaluate which option represents the correct direction of the cost shift.
The correct direction is shifting from upfront capital expenses (CapEx) to variable operating expenses (OpEx).
This shift enables the business to align infrastructure costs with actual usage rather than maintaining idle physical hardware.

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Shifting from Capital Expenses (CapEx) to Operating Expenses (OpEx) in Cloud Economics
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