GCP Cloud Digital Leader Practice Question

Cloud platforms let customers add or remove compute, storage, and networking resources within minutes. This elasticity (or scalable, on-demand provisioning) means the retailer can automatically scale up to handle the 10× traffic spike during each flash sale and scale back when demand subsides. Because resources are metered and billed only while in use, the company avoids the capital expense of purchasing and maintaining servers that would remain under-utilized most of the time. Global distribution, dedicated hardware, or advanced machine learning services offer other advantages, but they do not simultaneously address the dual needs of rapid capacity expansion and pay-per-use cost efficiency as directly as elastic scalability does.