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 per month but operated at a baseline utilization of only . 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 and 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)?
- Stop guessing capacityCevap
- BTrade capital expense for variable expense
- CBenefit from massive economies of scale
- DLeverage tightly coupled system scaling to maintain baseline performance