1.12.2: Critical Thinking Questions

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    Critical Thinking Questions

    1. Cost-Benefit Analysis: A mid-size retail company currently operates its own data center with 50 servers. They experience peak traffic during the holiday season (November–December) but low utilization the rest of the year. Analyze the business case for migrating to a cloud provider. What financial, operational, and strategic factors should they consider? What risks might they face?
    2. Service Model Selection: A healthcare startup needs to deploy a patient records application that must comply with HIPAA regulations. Compare the trade-offs of building the application on IaaS versus using a SaaS solution designed for healthcare. Which would you recommend, and why?
    3. Multi-Cloud Strategy: Zoom adopted a multi-cloud strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, using both AWS and Oracle Cloud. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a multi-cloud approach? Under what circumstances would you recommend a single-cloud versus multi-cloud strategy?
    4. Cloud Governance: A large enterprise has adopted cloud across 15 departments, but each department independently chose different cloud services with no central oversight. Costs are rising, security incidents have occurred, and there is no visibility into total cloud spend. What governance framework would you recommend? What specific controls and processes should be implemented?

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