A company is planning to deploy SAP HANA on AWS. The block storage that hosts the SAP HANA data volume must have at least 64,000 IOPS per volume and must have a maximum throughput of at least 500…

The correct answer is C. Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volume. Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volumes (and io2 Block Express) can deliver up to 256,000 IOPS and 4,000 MiB/s throughput per volume, easily meeting the 64,000 IOPS and 500 MiB/s requirements. gp2 (A) is capped at 16,000 IOPS and 250 MiB/s - far below the requirements. gp3 (B)…

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A company is planning to deploy SAP HANA on AWS. The block storage that hosts the SAP HANA data volume must have at least 64,000 IOPS per volume and must have a maximum throughput of at least 500 MiB/s per volume. Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume meets these requirements?

Options

AGeneral Purpose SSD (gp2) EBS volume
BGeneral Purpose SSD (gp3) EBS volume
CProvisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volume
DThroughput Optimized HDD (st1) EBS volume

How the community answered

(19 responses)

A
16% (3)
B
5% (1)
C
74% (14)
D
5% (1)

Explanation

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volumes (and io2 Block Express) can deliver up to 256,000 IOPS and 4,000 MiB/s throughput per volume, easily meeting the 64,000 IOPS and 500 MiB/s requirements. gp2 (A) is capped at 16,000 IOPS and 250 MiB/s - far below the requirements. gp3 (B) maxes out at 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MiB/s; while throughput is sufficient, it cannot reach 64,000 IOPS. Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) (D) is a magnetic HDD-based volume designed for sequential throughput workloads, not random IOPS-intensive workloads like SAP HANA data volumes, and does not support 64,000 IOPS.

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