CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER · Question #209
Why do organizations often struggle to scale their on-premises application infrastructure?
The correct answer is B. Increasing compute capacity is time-consuming and costly. On-premises infrastructure scaling is difficult because acquiring and deploying physical hardware takes significant time and capital investment.
Question
Why do organizations often struggle to scale their on-premises application infrastructure?
Options
- AScaling compute instances could breach compliance and/or regulation
- BIncreasing compute capacity is time-consuming and costly
- CTheir serverless compute functions struggle to meet the demand
- DTheir multi-cloud architecture is complex and expensive
How the community answered
(49 responses)- B94% (46)
- C2% (1)
- D4% (2)
Why each option
On-premises infrastructure scaling is difficult because acquiring and deploying physical hardware takes significant time and capital investment.
Compliance and regulation generally do not prohibit scaling compute capacity; they govern data handling practices, not the act of adding servers.
Scaling on-premises compute requires purchasing servers, waiting for delivery, installing hardware, configuring networking, and provisioning software - a process that can take weeks or months. This delay, combined with high upfront capital costs, makes it impractical to respond quickly to sudden increases in demand, leaving applications under-resourced during peak periods.
Serverless compute functions are a cloud construct and are not relevant to on-premises infrastructure scaling challenges.
Multi-cloud architecture is a cloud strategy and is unrelated to the limitations of on-premises infrastructure scaling.
Concept tested: On-premises infrastructure scaling limitations
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/framework/scalability/design-scale
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