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A company recently deployed MySQL on an Amazon EC2 instance with a default boot volume. The company intends to restore a 1.75 TB database. A SysOps administrator needs to provision the correct Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The database will require read performance of up to 10,000 IOPS and is not expected to grow in size.

Which solution will provide the required performance at the LOWEST cost?

  • A. Deploy a 2 TB Cold HDD (sc1) volume.
  • B. Deploy a 2 TB Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volume.
  • C. Deploy a 2 TB General Purpose SSD (gp3) volume. Set the IOPS to 10,000.
  • D. Deploy a 2 TB Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) volume. Set the IOPS to 10,000.
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️
by rrshah83 at May 22, 2023, 11:03 a.m.
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noahsark
Highly Voted 10 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: C
gp3: max IOPS is 16,000 Volume size is 1GB to 16TB io2: max IOPS is 64,000 Volume size is 4GB to 16TB https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html
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jipark
8 months, 1 week ago
I agree - General Purpose support 16,000 with "lowest cost"
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xile1021
Most Recent 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
B. Deploy a 2 TB Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volume.
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xile1021
6 months, 3 weeks ago
nvm I believe correct answer is C. B does not provide enough I/O
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gingerbytes
8 months, 2 weeks ago
D it says "10,000 IOPS and is not expected to grow in size"
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Greyer
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: C
C - GP3 has lower cost compared to IO2, and has the capability of bursting or setting a baseline of 10k IOPS.
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rrshah83
11 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: D
io2 for DB workloads
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