A Company Is Building an Application on Amazon EC2 Instances

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Multiple Choice

A company is building an application on Amazon EC2 instances that generates temporary transactional data. The application requires access to data storage that can provide configurable and consistent IOPS. What should a solutions architect recommend?

• A) Provision an EC2 instance with a Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) root volume and a Cold HDD (sc1) data volume.
• B) Provision an EC2 instance with a Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volume that will serve as the root and data volume.
• C) Provision an EC2 instance with a General Purpose SSD (gp2) root volume and Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) data volume.
• D) Provision an EC2 instance with a General Purpose SSD (gp2) root volume. Configure the application to store its data in an Amazon S3 bucket.

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