Which of the following are economic benefits of using the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: Consumption-based pricing, Economies of scale.
Why this is the answer
Consumption-based pricing is an economic benefit because you only pay for the compute, storage, and other resources you actually use, eliminating the need for large upfront capital expenditures. This contrasts with traditional IT, where you might over-provision resources. Economies of scale are another benefit. Because AWS operates at a massive scale, it can offer lower prices per unit of service compared to what an individual company could achieve on its own. Perpetual licenses are typically an upfront cost, not a consumption-based model. AWS Enterprise Support has an additional cost, it's not free. The bring-your-own-hardware model is not applicable to the cloud, as AWS provides the hardware.
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