The Chief Financial Officer for a company that operates a popular SaaS application has noticed compute costs from the CSP are extremely high but storage costs are relatively low. Which of the…

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Options

• AAn email application
• BA CDN service
• CA gaming application
• DAudio streaming service

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  14% (4)
• C
  75% (21)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

A gaming application is a type of SaaS application that requires high compute resources to run the game logic, graphics, physics, and networking. Gaming applications also need to handle a large number of concurrent users and provide low latency and high performance. Therefore, the compute costs from the CSP would be extremely high for a gaming application. On the other hand, a gaming application does not need much storage space, as most of the game data is stored on the client side or in memory. Therefore, the storage costs from the CSP would be relatively low for a gaming application. The other options are not likely to have high compute costs and low storage costs. An email application, a CDN service, and an audio streaming service all need to store large amounts of data on the cloud, which would increase the storage costs. An email application and a CDN service do not need much compute power, as they mainly involve sending and receiving data. An audio streaming service may need some compute power to process and encode the audio files, but not as much as a gaming application.

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