AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 464

A retail company is building a new mobile app. The company is evaluating whether to build the app at an on-premises data center or in the AWS Cloud.

Which of the following are benefits of building this app in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. A large, upfront capital expense and low variable expenses
• B. Increased speed for trying out new projects
• C. Complete control over the physical security of the infrastructure
• D. Flexibility to scale up in minutes as the application becomes popular
• E. Ability to pick the specific data centers that will host the application servers

Correct answer: B, D

Explanation

Deploying on AWS enhances agility, allowing organizations to quickly experiment and launch new projects (Option B), while also offering rapid elasticity to scale resources up in minutes as user demand increases (Option D). Upfront capital expenses and physical security control are characteristics of on-premises environments, whereas AWS manages the physical infrastructure and abstracts specific data center locations from the user.