A nightly municipal PDF generation job runs for a few minutes and sits idle the rest of the day. Which compute approach best avoids paying for an always-on VM?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Why rent a parking space all month for a car that only shows up for five minutes at midnight? Serverless (FaaS) wakes up for the PDF job, does the work, then goes away so you are not paying idle VM time. Sporadic night jobs love that model.
Full Explanation
Serverless and FaaS platforms bill for execution of event-driven or scheduled functions rather than continuous VM uptime, which optimizes cost for intermittent workloads. Always-on VMs, dedicated hosts, and continuous physical blades incur capacity charges during idle periods. Cloud+ workload optimization includes selecting serverless when usage is sporadic.