CLF-C02 Practice Question 31: Speed and Agility
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) · Test 4 · question 1 of 10
A product team used to wait about six weeks for the IT department to buy and rack servers before it could try out a new idea. After moving to AWS, the team launches the resources it needs in a few minutes, runs the experiment, and deletes everything if the idea does not work out. Which advantage of cloud computing does this describe?
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Increase speed and agility is the advantage about how quickly resources reach the people who need them. AWS describes new IT resources as "only a click away", cutting the time to make them available to developers from weeks to minutes. Because trying something and throwing it away is now cheap and fast, the organization can experiment far more often.
Option A, stop guessing capacity, is about not having to predict how much infrastructure a workload will need, since you can scale up and down with demand. The team's problem was the waiting time to get anything at all, not sizing. Option B, economies of scale, is about AWS aggregating usage across many customers to offer lower pay-as-you-go prices; it explains cheaper prices, not faster access. Option D, go global in minutes, is about deploying to multiple Regions to give users around the world lower latency, which the scenario does not mention.
Reference: Six advantages of cloud computing