ACorrect
Agility
Correct. AWS allows resources to be provisioned in minutes, enabling new business ideas to be brought to market quickly. This speed and flexibility is Agility.
By using AWS, a company can rapidly deploy new services and applications to a production environment. Which AWS characteristic represents this advantage?
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CorrectA
Explanation
A question asking which AWS characteristic enables rapid deployment and time to market.
- 1「rapidly」Achievable in minutes through provisioning — compared to weeks for on-premises.
- 2「production environment」Full deployment to a live user-facing environment, not just a test environment.
BIncorrect
Scalability
Scalability refers to the ability to increase resource capacity as load grows.
This addresses 'how big can it get' (capacity), not 'how quickly can it start' (speed), so it is a different concept from Agility and this is incorrect.
CIncorrect
Elasticity
Elasticity is the characteristic of automatically scaling resources up or down in response to changes in demand.
It focuses on adjusting running capacity, whereas the advantage in this question is the ability to rapidly build and launch new services to market — which is Agility, so this is incorrect.
DIncorrect
Cost-effectiveness
Cost-effectiveness is the financial advantage of reducing total cost by paying only for what is needed.
This is about money, not about the time-related advantage of reducing the time to deploy — Agility — so this is incorrect.
Key Takeaway
Agility = speed = rapid deployment is one of the 6 defined key benefits of AWS. It is easy to confuse with scalability (capacity expansion) and elasticity (scaling with demand). Think in terms of the time axis (how quickly can you start) to distinguish them.