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Zorluk: OrtaUnderstand concepts of cloud economics

An aerospace simulation startup, AeroSimulate, is migrating its engineering simulation workloads to AWS. Currently, the company maintains an on-premises server cluster that is sized for peak demand but sits idle for the majority of the day. The CFO wants to understand the economic advantages of moving these workloads to the cloud. Which of the following options represent key cloud economic benefits for this scenario? (Select TWO.)

  1. Paying only for the compute resources consumed during active simulation runs, aligning operational expenses with actual usage.Cevap
  2. Reducing waste by automatically scaling down compute capacity when simulations are not active.Cevap
  3. C
    Transitioning infrastructure costs from variable operating expenses (OpEx) to predictable, fixed capital expenses (CapEx).
  4. D
    Ensuring elasticity by deploying a massive, permanent fleet of instances sized to handle the startup's maximum projected growth over the next three years.
  5. E
    Reducing overall costs by using a monolithic architecture that keeps all application components tightly coupled on a single large virtual machine.

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Paying only for the compute resources consumed during active simulation runs, aligning operational expenses with actual usage, and reducing waste by automatically scaling down compute capacity when simulations are not active.
The correct options are the statements regarding paying only for the compute resources consumed during active simulation runs and reducing waste by automatically scaling down compute capacity when simulations are not active. Paying only for active use aligns expenses with actual demand, and using elasticity to scale down prevents paying for idle compute time.

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1
Analyze the business scenario and current challenges.
The startup runs sporadic simulation workloads and has a high amount of idle capacity (on-premises servers sized for peak demand sitting idle).
Understanding the baseline operational challenges helps target the specific economic benefits of the AWS Cloud that address them.
2
Evaluate how AWS pricing models apply to sporadic workloads.
AWS pay-as-you-go pricing allows paying only for what is used (operating expenses) rather than buying servers upfront (capital expenses).
This directly maps to the economic benefit of matching operational costs to usage.
3
Evaluate how AWS scaling features apply to idle resources.
Leveraging elasticity allows resources to scale up during simulations and down to zero during idle periods, eliminating waste.
This directly maps to the economic benefit of elasticity and cost optimization in the cloud.

Anahtar Kavram

Cloud economics focuses on replacing upfront capital expenses with variable operational expenses, and optimizing costs through elasticity and utility-based pricing.
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