An insurance company needs customer data to remain available during regional outages. Which cloud feature should it prioritize?

Geo-distribution (or geo-redundancy) is the correct answer because it involves deploying resources across multiple geographically separate regions. This ensures that if one region experiences an outage, the application and data remain available from another region, directly addressing the requirement for data availability during regional outages. Capital expenditure reduction is a general benefit of cloud computing but doesn't specifically address disaster recovery or high availability during regional outages. Agility refers to the ability to rapidly develop, deploy, and scale applications, which is a cloud benefit but not the primary solution for regional outage resilience. Metered pricing is a billing model where you pay only for the resources you consume, which is also a cloud benefit but unrelated to ensuring data availability during outages.