An e-commerce startup often sees sudden traffic surges during flash-sale events and very low activity overnight. From a cost-management perspective, which cloud concept most helps reduce total cost of ownership by automatically adding and removing compute resources to match this fluctuating demand?
High availability across multiple regions
Vertical scalability that upgrades server hardware
Elasticity refers to a cloud platform's ability to automatically provision and de-provision resources in response to real-time workload changes. When demand increases, additional virtual machines or containers are started; when demand falls, the extra capacity is shut down. Because the business is charged only for the resources actually consumed, elasticity directly lowers total cost of ownership for workloads with variable usage patterns. High availability and data redundancy improve reliability, but they do not necessarily scale resources up and down. Scalability generally means the ability to grow, and vertical scalability (upgrading to larger machines) does not automatically return capacity-or costs-when demand subsides.
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