The system administrator notices that their application is no longer able to keep up with the large amounts of traffic their server is receiving daily. Several packets are dropped and sometimes the…

Cloud platforms offer horizontal scaling (adding more instances) and auto-scaling capabilities that automatically respond to increased traffic, preventing packet loss and downtime. Combined with load balancers and distributed infrastructure, cloud computing addresses both the availability (preventing outages) and security (managed services with built-in protections) requirements of the scenario.

Full disk encryption protects data at rest on a storage device and has no impact on network traffic capacity or server availability.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) monitors and controls data transfer to prevent unauthorized exfiltration but does not address server capacity or traffic management.

A Hardware Security Module (HSM) manages cryptographic keys and operations and provides no mechanism for scaling compute resources or improving application availability.