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Zorluk: OrtaUnderstand concepts of cloud economics

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?

  1. A
    Converting variable operational costs into predictable, long-term capital expenditures (CapEx) to increase asset ownership.
  2. B
    Maintaining a constant pool of peak-capacity resources throughout the year to eliminate scaling latency.
  3. Benefiting from cloud elasticity by provisioning resources only when simulations run, shifting fixed capital expenditures (CapEx) to variable operating expenditures (OpEx).Cevap
  4. D
    Committing to a three-year, All Upfront Reserved Instance contract to cover the simulation servers during their idle periods.

Cevap

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).

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1
Analyze the workload pattern of LuminaAero.
The simulation workload is highly periodic and runs only for two weeks out of a twelve-week quarter, meaning resources are idle 85% of the time.
Identifying the workload demand profile is necessary to select the most cost-effective cloud economic strategy.
2
Evaluate how AWS pricing and resource provisioning map to this workload pattern.
AWS allows provisioning resources dynamically (elasticity) and paying only for active compute time (pay-as-you-go / OpEx), eliminating the need to buy and maintain idle hardware (CapEx).
This shows how cloud elasticity directly translates to cost savings by transforming capital expenses into variable operating expenses.

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Shifting CapEx to OpEx and leveraging cloud elasticity for variable workloads.
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