Match the cloud cost term
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Elasticity
- Right
- Request, receive and release resources
- Left
- Overprovision
- Right
- Peak capacity that then sits idle
- Left
- Pay per use
- Right
- Charged for what is consumed
- Left
- Billing period
- Right
- Costs accrue, fee due at the end
- Left
- Service credit
- Right
- Compensation for time unavailable
- Instructions
- Match each term on the left to its meaning.
Explanation
_Source: NIST SP 800-146, 'Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations'_