A company wants to move a containerized application between its own data center and two public clouds without rewriting it. Which Google Cloud practice best reflects the freedom benefit?
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Answer: B
The freedom benefit concerns flexibility and avoiding lock-in. Open standards and open-source tools, such as Kubernetes for containers, let workloads run across environments with less rework. Encryption, renewable energy purchases, and prebuilt AI APIs are valuable, but they do not by themselves make an application portable.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Encryption protects data confidentiality. It is a trust-related capability and does not affect whether an application can be moved between environments.
- C. Renewable energy purchases support sustainability goals. They do not change where or how a workload can run, so they are unrelated to portability.
- D. Prebuilt APIs speed up adding AI features, but they tie the application to a specific provider's service. That works against the portability the scenario requires.