AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Practice Question

Using AWS services means customers no longer need to purchase, maintain, and over-provision their own servers and storage. By replacing large, upfront capital expenditures with pay-as-you-go usage pricing, organizations can shift costs from CapEx to OpEx and pay only for the capacity they actually consume. Reduced hardware investments therefore provide the most direct and significant cost benefit derived from AWS's economies of scale. Buying servers in bulk, paying only for software licenses, or simply deploying applications faster may offer other advantages, but they do not remove the capital costs of physical infrastructure.