Question

_______ blurs the differences between a small deployment and a large one because scale becomes tied only to demand.

(a) Leading

(b) Pooling

(c) Virtualization

(d) All of the mentioned

This question was posed to me during an interview.

The origin of the question is Laws of Cloudonomics topic in section Value Proposition of Cloud of Cloud Computing

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) Pooling

The explanation is: The virtualization of pooled resources—processors or compute engines, storage, and network connectivity—optimizes these investments and allows the cloud provider to pass along these economies to customers.