Why Not Just Buy Servers?

The situation

Code Nexus Creator is running a five-day sponsorship campaign that will push traffic to roughly ten times normal. Leo wants capacity 'delivered before lunch' and has a datacentre quote open in another tab. Priya asks you to work out what Code Nexus actually needs before anyone signs anything.

What you'll learn

• AZ-900 cloud concepts: the shared responsibility model, cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models (public, private, hybrid), consumption-based pricing, and the core benefits of cloud — elasticity, scalability, agility, and moving capital expense to operating expense.

Who you work with

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  Priya Naidoo

  Cloud Architect

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  Leo Martins

  Product Manager

Scenes

1. 1.Servers before lunch
2. 2.Who runs what
3. 3.Buy, rent, or scale
4. 4.Public, private, hybrid
5. 5.The decision record
6. 6.Concepts check

What you leave with

The lab recommendation uses elastic compute, managed data services and a private path under a five-day demand assumption. Budget alerts monitor a spending target; they do not cap it. The record includes scale-down and retained-cost review.