Previously we covered both cloud characteristics and cloud advantages. Now let's practice seeing how they work together to solve real business challenges.

Engagement Message

Can you see the connections between characteristics and advantages?

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Practice Question

Match each business scenario with the primary cloud advantage it demonstrates:

Labels

• Left Label: Trade Capital for Variable Expense
• Right Label: Focus on Business Value

Left Label Items

• A food truck business pays only for the payment processing they use each day
• A seasonal retailer scales their website hosting costs with holiday traffic
• A podcast creator pays for storage based on how many episodes they publish
• A consulting firm pays monthly for the productivity software they actually use

Right Label Items

• A restaurant spends time improving recipes instead of managing email servers
• A design agency focuses on creativity rather than maintaining backup systems
• A law firm works on cases instead of troubleshooting network issues
• A marketing team develops campaigns rather than updating security software

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Markdown With Blanks

Fill in the blanks about how cloud characteristics enable advantages:

[[blank:Rapid]] elasticity enables businesses to stop [[blank:guessing]] capacity, while [[blank:resource]] pooling enables massive economies of [[blank:scale]].

Suggested Answers

• Rapid
• guessing
• resource
• scale