Which of the following is typical of software licensing in the cloud?

The correct answer is C. Subscription-based. Cloud software licensing follows a subscription model where customers pay a recurring fee (monthly or annually) for access to the software. This aligns with the cloud's operational expenditure (OpEx) model-you pay only while you use it and can scale up or down. Per-socket…

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APer socket
BPerpetual
CSubscription-based
DSite-based

How the community answered

(33 responses)

B
6% (2)
C
91% (30)
D
3% (1)

Explanation

Cloud software licensing follows a subscription model where customers pay a recurring fee (monthly or annually) for access to the software. This aligns with the cloud's operational expenditure (OpEx) model-you pay only while you use it and can scale up or down. Per-socket licensing (A) is a traditional on-premises model tied to the number of physical CPU sockets in a server, which is irrelevant in virtualized cloud environments where the underlying hardware is abstracted away. Perpetual licensing (B) is a one-time purchase model common in on-premises software. Site-based licensing (D) ties the license to a specific physical location, which contradicts the location-agnostic nature of cloud services.

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