SAA-C03 · Question #373
A company runs a Windows-based ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application has a very high transaction rate. The company requires a durable storage solution that can deliver 200,000
The correct answer is A. Host the application on EC2 instances that have Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) Block Express. Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes are designed to deliver sub-millisecond latency and up to 256,000 IOPS per volume, with durability and high availability. This makes io2 Block Express the recommended choice for workloads requiring very high and predictable IOPS, such as enter
Question
A company runs a Windows-based ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application has a very high transaction rate. The company requires a durable storage solution that can deliver 200,000 IOPS for each EC2 instance. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Options
- AHost the application on EC2 instances that have Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) Block Express
- BInstall the application on an Amazon EMR cluster. Use Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- CUse Amazon FSx for Lustre as shared storage across the EC2 instances that run the application.
- DHost the application on EC2 instances that have SSD instance store volumes and General
How the community answered
(54 responses)- A74% (40)
- B7% (4)
- C4% (2)
- D15% (8)
Explanation
Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes are designed to deliver sub-millisecond latency and up to 256,000 IOPS per volume, with durability and high availability. This makes io2 Block Express the recommended choice for workloads requiring very high and predictable IOPS, such as enterprise databases and high-transaction-rate applications.
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