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What is the main financial benefit of moving from capital expense to variable expense?
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You pay for resources as you use them instead of buying and maintaining capacity upfront.
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Q: What is the main financial benefit of moving from capital expense to variable expense?
A: You pay for resources as you use them instead of buying and maintaining capacity upfront.
Q: What does elasticity mean in AWS Cloud?
A: The ability to automatically or quickly add and remove resources as demand changes.
Q: What is an AWS Region?
A: A physical geographic area containing multiple isolated and independent Availability Zones.
Q: What is an Availability Zone?
A: One or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region.
Q: What is an edge location used for?
A: Delivering content closer to users through services such as Amazon CloudFront.
Q: Name the six AWS Well-Architected pillars.
A: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
Q: What is undifferentiated heavy lifting?
A: Operational work that does not directly differentiate the business, such as managing data centers and hardware.
Q: What does high availability mean?
A: A system is designed to remain available by reducing single points of failure, often across multiple AZs.