A retail company is building a new mobile app. The company is evaluating whether to build the app at an on-premises data center or in the AWS Cloud. Which of the following are benefits of building thi

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Options

• AA large, upfront capital expense and low variable expenses
• BIncreased speed for trying out new projects
• CComplete control over the physical security of the infrastructure
• DFlexibility to scale up in minutes as the application becomes popular
• EAbility to pick the specific data centers that will host the application servers

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  91% (21)
• C
  4% (1)

Explanation

AWS Cloud Benefits Explanation

Building in the AWS Cloud provides increased speed for trying out new projects (B) because AWS allows teams to provision resources in minutes rather than weeks, enabling rapid experimentation without lengthy procurement cycles. Flexibility to scale up in minutes (D) is a core cloud advantage - AWS's elastic infrastructure lets apps handle sudden traffic spikes instantly, something impossible to achieve quickly with on-premises hardware.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• (A) is the opposite of cloud economics - AWS features low upfront costs and variable (pay-as-you-go) expenses, not large capital expenses
• (C) Physical security of the infrastructure is AWS's responsibility, not the customer's (this is part of the Shared Responsibility Model)
• (E) AWS customers cannot cherry-pick specific data centers - you select Regions and Availability Zones, but not individual facilities

Memory Tip

Think "FAST and FLEXIBLE" for AWS Cloud benefits: Fast innovation (speed to market) and Flexible scaling. If an answer sounds like something you'd get with on-premises control (physical security, specific data centers, capital expenses), it's likely a distractor - cloud trading control for agility is the key trade-off to remember.

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