The correct answer is Adopting cloud platforms commonly delivers greater scalability and improved performance compared with private data centers.

Cloud providers run large, geographically distributed infrastructures and offer features such as autoscaling, managed load balancing, content delivery networks and specialized hardware. These capabilities let applications handle large and variable demand more easily and often provide better latency and throughput than a single privately owned data center.

Cloud platforms also enable rapid provisioning and elastic capacity, and they provide managed services for databases, caches and analytics that improve performance without the long procurement and deployment cycles required for on premise infrastructure.

Moving to the cloud will always reduce overall costs is incorrect because cost outcomes depend on workload characteristics, architecture choices and operating practices. Poorly optimized cloud deployments, high data egress, and licensing or managed service fees can make cloud more expensive than on premise for some use cases.

On-premise and cloud deployments expose organizations to exactly the same security risks is incorrect because the risk profiles differ. Cloud changes which controls the provider manages and which the customer manages, and it introduces risks around misconfiguration, identity and API access that are not identical to traditional physical security and hardware risks.

Transitioning to cloud platforms completely removes security vulnerabilities is incorrect because no platform eliminates all vulnerabilities. Cloud providers secure the underlying infrastructure, but customers remain responsible for securing their data, configurations and access. The shared responsibility model means vulnerabilities can still arise from application code, misconfiguration and user access.

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