Fictional Corp has decided to migrate much of its on-premises data center to a cloud service provider to take advantage of some of the benefits of cloud computing. The benefit that they found the most important was the ability to expand and grow (or shrink) as needed without any delay due to shipping and installing the hardware required for an on-premises data center. Which of the following common cloud terms was the most important factor in their decision?
A) Elasticity
B) Growability
C) Hyperthreading
D) Bursting

Question

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Elasticity is the term that describes the ability of a cloud service to scale resources up or down automatically and quickly as demand changes, without the need for physical hardware adjustments. This was the key factor in Fictional Corp's decision to migrate to the cloud.

Fictional Corp Has Decided to Migrate Much of Its On-Premises