During an annual cost review, the IT manager at Crucial Technologies notices that the monthly invoice from its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider fluctuates because the vendor charges only for the virtual CPUs, storage, and bandwidth actually consumed each month. Which cloud characteristic is demonstrated by this pay-per-use pricing model?
Metered utilization is a pay-per-use billing approach in which the cloud provider measures how many compute cycles, gigabytes of storage, or network bandwidth a customer consumes and charges accordingly. Because the invoice rises or falls with demand, the organization avoids paying for idle capacity. High availability focuses on maximizing uptime, rapid elasticity on quickly scaling resources, and file synchronization on keeping data current across devices-none of these relate to consumption-based billing.
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