Which is a benefit of a cloud-based SD-WAN deployment?

Cloud-based SD-WAN leverages the inherent elasticity and on-demand provisioning capabilities of cloud environments, allowing enterprises to instantly scale their SD-WAN infrastructure and services up or down as business needs change without physical hardware deployment or lengthy procurement processes.

Security remains a shared responsibility in cloud deployments; while the cloud provider secures the underlying infrastructure, the customer is responsible for security within their SD-WAN deployment.

While some industry standards may allow or even encourage cloud adoption, 'might be required' is not a universal benefit and compliance often introduces additional considerations rather than being a direct benefit of cloud-based SD-WAN itself.

While cloud providers offer high availability, controller availability is still managed by the cloud provider and can experience outages, making 'never an issue' an incorrect statement.

Agility of change in a cloud-based SD-WAN is influenced by both the cloud provider's processes and the organization's internal IT processes, making it not solely dependent on internal IT processes.