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Zorluk: Çok zorDefine the benefits of the AWS Cloud

A digital publishing company experiences highly unpredictable traffic surges when articles go viral. Previously, the company managed these surges by purchasing and maintaining a permanent array of physical web servers capable of handling peak historic traffic, which cost $25,000\$25,000 per month but operated at a baseline utilization of only 8%8\%. After migrating to AWS, the company decommissioned their physical servers and implemented an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. Their monthly AWS bill now varies between $2,000\$2,000 and $18,000\$18,000 depending on actual monthly web traffic. While the financial shift from a fixed monthly cost to a variable bill represents one cloud benefit, which AWS Cloud benefit is directly demonstrated by the elimination of the operational inefficiencies of under-provisioning (outages) and over-provisioning (costly idle servers)?

  1. Stop guessing capacityCevap
  2. B
    Trade capital expense for variable expense
  3. C
    Benefit from massive economies of scale
  4. D
    Leverage tightly coupled system scaling to maintain baseline performance

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Stop guessing capacity is the correct answer because it directly addresses the elimination of over-provisioning (idle servers) and under-provisioning (outages) by scaling capacity dynamically to match demand.
The correct answer is 'Stop guessing capacity' because the company's dynamic scaling architecture eliminates the inefficiency of over-provisioning (which led to an 8%8\% utilization rate and high idle costs) and under-provisioning (which led to outages during viral surges). By matching compute capacity to real-time traffic, they avoid both operational issues.

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1
Analyze the operational challenges described in the scenario.
The publishing company is dealing with under-provisioning (outages during viral traffic surges) and over-provisioning (costly idle physical servers at 8%8\% utilization).
Identifying the core technical problem allows us to map it to the correct AWS Cloud benefit.
2
Differentiate between the financial and operational aspects of the scenario.
The financial transition from fixed to variable cost represents one benefit, but the question asks specifically for the benefit that solves the operational capacity mismatches.
This step prevents falling for the distractor related to Capex/Opex.
3
Match the operational solution (dynamic auto-scaling) to the official AWS Cloud benefits.
The ability to dynamically scale resources to eliminate idle capacity and prevent outages corresponds directly to 'Stop guessing capacity'.
This confirms 'Stop guessing capacity' as the correct answer based on AWS documentation definitions.

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