ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

Measured service is one of the NIST-defined essential characteristics of cloud computing. It refers to the cloud provider's ability to automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging metering capabilities that monitor, report, and bill on a per-usage basis. Because consumption is precisely measured, an organization can implement chargeback or show-back processes tied to actual resource utilization. Rapid elasticity deals with automatic scaling, broad network access addresses ubiquitous connectivity, and multi-tenancy describes logically isolated sharing of pooled resources; none of these characteristics alone provide the detailed metering required for cost allocation.