A company regularly doubles the number of employees ever the summer by hiring on temporary stuff. The
company currently pays the same price every month for its email software, equal to the maximum number of
employees on staff who have email addresses. The company would like to only pay for the number of active
email addresses and is considering migrating to a cloud solution. Which of the following characteristics of cloud
computing is the MOST beneficial reason the company should implement a cloud solution?

A.
Scalability

B.
Hardware independence

C.
Variable costs

D.
Security