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A small e-commerce company is experiencing rapid growth. Their current on-premises server frequently crashes during peak sales events, leading to lost revenue. They want to move to Google Cloud to improve reliability and scalability, but they have a limited IT staff and want to minimize operational overhead. Which Google Cloud compute product best meets their needs?
- ACompute Engine
- BCloud Functions
- CApp Engine Standard
- DGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
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Correct answer: C. App Engine Standard
App Engine Standard is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that automatically scales applications and minimizes operational overhead, making it ideal for companies with limited IT staff and a need for scalability.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Compute Engine is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), requiring more management of virtual machines and infrastructure.
- B. Cloud Functions is best for event-driven, serverless functions, not typically for hosting an entire e-commerce application.
- D. GKE is a powerful container orchestration platform but requires more operational expertise than App Engine Standard.
App Engine Standard
A fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that allows developers to deploy and scale web applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.
- Automatic scaling (up and down)
- Zero server management required
- Supports popular runtimes like Python, Java, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Go
Memory trick: App Engine automatically scales, letting your apps soar.