A company would like to take advantage of the cost savings of cloud computing by only paying for the resources used. Which of the following will BEST address this need?

The correct answer is C. Metered utilization. Metered utilization (also called pay-as-you-go or consumption-based billing) is the cloud computing characteristic where customers are billed only for the exact resources they consume - such as CPU hours, storage GB, or network bandwidth. This directly addresses the requirement…

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AShared resources
BRapid elasticity
CMetered utilization
DHigh availability

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Metered utilization (also called pay-as-you-go or consumption-based billing) is the cloud computing characteristic where customers are billed only for the exact resources they consume - such as CPU hours, storage GB, or network bandwidth. This directly addresses the requirement to 'pay only for resources used.' Shared resources describe how infrastructure is pooled, not how billing works. Rapid elasticity refers to the ability to scale resources up or down quickly. High availability refers to system uptime and redundancy, not billing.

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