A retail startup plans limited-time promotional campaigns that cause sudden surges in website traffic for a few days each quarter. To avoid purchasing servers that would sit idle most of the year, the company decides to run its storefront on Google Cloud. Which primary cloud benefit makes this approach well-suited to the company's business model?
Manually provisioning physical servers in advance of each marketing event.
Guaranteeing all data is kept exclusively in a single on-premises location.
The ability to automatically scale resources up and down on demand, paying only for usage.
Relying on fixed, pre-purchased compute capacity sized for peak workloads.
Public cloud platforms let organizations add or remove compute capacity within minutes, paying only for what they actually use. This elasticity means the startup can seamlessly scale out during high-traffic campaigns and scale back when demand drops, avoiding the cost and inflexibility of buying peak-sized on-premises hardware. The other options either describe traditional practices (fixed capacity or manual provisioning) or a governance concern (data residency) that does not address the need to match resources to short-lived demand spikes.
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