CASE STUDY: ShopGlobal
Overview: Retailer, 2000 employees, $500M revenue. US-Central co-lo, Java/Tomcat monolith, Oracle RAC 20TB, batch inventory sync.
Business Req: Handle 10x Black Friday spikes, personalized recommendations, modernize to microservices.
Execs: CEO wants omnichannel; CFO needs predictable spend; CTO demands zero downtime cutover.
Tech Req: PCI-DSS compliance, automated image processing, real-time inventory, CI/CD.
Constraints: Complex Oracle stored procedures, team learning containers, strict bi-annual audits.
QUESTION:
Which compute platform should you recommend for the modernized microservices architecture, considering the team is just learning containers?
GCP PCA · Question 10 · Cost Optimization
CASE STUDY: ShopGlobal
Overview: Retailer, 2000 employees, $500M revenue. US-Central co-lo, Java/Tomcat monolith, Oracle RAC 20TB, batch inventory sync.
Business Req: Handle 10x Black Friday spikes, personalized recommendations, modernize to microservices.
Execs: CEO wants omnichannel; CFO needs predictable spend; CTO demands zero downtime cutover.
Tech Req: PCI-DSS compliance, automated image processing, real-time inventory, CI/CD.
Constraints: Complex Oracle stored procedures, team learning containers, strict bi-annual audits.
QUESTION:
To satisfy the CFO's requirement for predictable cloud spend while handling the 10x Black Friday spikes, what pricing strategy should you use for compute resources?
Answer options:
Purchase Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) for the maximum expected Black Friday traffic.
Rely entirely on Spot VMs to minimize costs during traffic spikes.
Purchase Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) for baseline traffic and use autoscaling for the spikes.
Use Sustained Use Discounts (SUDs) exclusively, as they require no upfront commitment.
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