Question

A Solutions Architect is designing a critical business application with a relational database that runs on an EC2 instance. It requires a single EBS volume that can support up to 16,000 IOPS.

Which Amazon EBS volume type can meet the performance requirements of this application?

A. EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD

B. EBS Throughput Optimized HDD

C. EBS General Purpose SSD

D. EBS Cold HDD

Answer 1

A – EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD provides sustained performance for mission-critical low-latency workloads. EBS General Purpose SSD can provide bursts of performance up to 3,000 IOPS and have a maximum baseline performance of 10,000 IOPS for volume sizes greater than 3.3 TB. The 2 HDD options are lower cost, high throughput volumes.