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A large retail company is experiencing significant challenges with its legacy on-premises infrastructure, including high maintenance costs, slow provisioning of new resources, and limited scalability during peak shopping seasons. The company's leadership has identified digital transformation as a key strategic objective to improve customer experience and operational efficiency. Which Google Cloud solution would best address their need for scalable, on-demand compute resources to host their e-commerce applications?
- ACloud CDN
- BCompute Engine
- CBigQuery
- DCloud Storage
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Correct answer: B. Compute Engine
Compute Engine provides scalable, on-demand virtual machines that can be provisioned quickly and scaled dynamically to handle fluctuating traffic, directly addressing the retail company's issues with slow provisioning and limited scalability.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud CDN is for content delivery and caching, not for hosting dynamic e-commerce applications.
- C. BigQuery is a data warehouse for analytics, not an application hosting platform.
- D. Cloud Storage is primarily for object storage, not compute resources for applications.
Compute Engine
Google Cloud's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that allows users to launch and manage virtual machines (VMs) on Google's infrastructure.
- Provides highly customizable and scalable VMs.
- Offers various machine types and operating systems.
- Billing is per second for most resources, making it cost-effective.
Memory trick: Compute like a computer, Engine powers it.