A company is planning to deploy a business-critical application in the AWS Cloud. The application requires durable storage with consistent, low-latency performance. Which type of storage should a…

The correct answer is C. Provisioned IOPS SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 or io2) volumes are designed to deliver predictable, high performance for I/O-intensive workloads such as databases. They offer consistent, low-latency performance and durability, making them ideal for business-critical applications that cannot…

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A company is planning to deploy a business-critical application in the AWS Cloud. The application requires durable storage with consistent, low-latency performance. Which type of storage should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Options

AInstance store volume
BAmazon ElastiCache (Memcached) cluster
CProvisioned IOPS SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume
DThroughput Optimized HDD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume

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B
2% (1)
C
94% (48)
D
4% (2)

Explanation

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 or io2) volumes are designed to deliver predictable, high performance for I/O-intensive workloads such as databases. They offer consistent, low-latency performance and durability, making them ideal for business-critical applications that cannot tolerate latency or

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