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Zorluk: OrtaUnderstand concepts of cloud economics

TerraGrow, a smart agriculture startup, runs a telemetry platform that ingests moisture and temperature data from soil sensors. The data volume increases tenfold during spring planting and autumn harvesting seasons, but drops to near zero during winter. Historically, TerraGrow had to provision physical servers to handle peak demand, resulting in low utilization and high idle costs during off-seasons. The company is migrating this workload to AWS to leverage cloud economics. Which of the following cloud economic concepts best addresses TerraGrow's seasonal utilization challenge?

  1. The cost benefits of elasticity, which allows the company to dynamically scale resource capacity up and down to match demand, paying only for what is used.Cevap
  2. B
    The capability of scalability, which ensures that infrastructure is permanently over-provisioned to handle future growth and prevent service degradation.
  3. C
    A shift from operating expenses (OpEx) to capital expenses (CapEx), allowing the company to invest upfront in physical cloud assets to reduce long-term maintenance fees.
  4. D
    A migration strategy centered on rehosting, which moves monolithic applications to dedicated physical servers on AWS to guarantee performance.

Cevap

The cost benefits of elasticity, which allows the company to dynamically scale resource capacity up and down to match demand, paying only for what is used.
The correct answer is the concept of elasticity. Elasticity allows resources to dynamically adjust to match demand cycles, eliminating idle capacity during off-seasons and reducing overall costs.

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1
Analyze the business scenario and identify the workload characteristics.
The workload is highly variable and seasonal, with high demand during planting/harvesting and very low demand during winter.
Understanding workload pattern helps identify the correct financial optimization approach.
2
Evaluate cloud economics principles that align with variable demand.
Elasticity enables automated resource adjustment to match demand, replacing the need to provision for peak capacity upfront.
This directly minimizes costs during low-utilization periods and eliminates idle capacity overhead.

Anahtar Kavram

The economic benefit of elasticity and paying for what is used, eliminating idle capacity.
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