Which of the following is a benefit of virtualization in a cloud environment?

Virtualization increases scalability by enabling dynamic resource allocation and rapid horizontal or vertical scaling, not decreasing it.

Virtualization decouples services from physical hardware, allowing administrators to deploy virtual machines and services in minutes using pre-built templates and automated orchestration. This eliminates the procurement and setup time associated with physical infrastructure. The result is a significantly reduced time-to-implementation for new services.

Virtualization is a foundational enabler of resource pooling, allowing multiple tenants to share underlying physical resources, so it increases resource pooling rather than decreasing it.

Virtualization reduces time-to-service by enabling on-demand provisioning, which is the opposite of increasing service delivery time.