A Company Hosts an Application on an Amazon EC2 Instance

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Multiple Choice

A company hosts an application on an Amazon EC2 instance that requires a maximum of 200 GB storage space. The application is used infrequently, with peaks during mornings and evenings. Disk I/O varies, but peaks at 3,000 IOPS. The chief financial officer of the company is concerned about costs and has asked a solutions architect to recommend the most cost-effective storage option that does not sacrifice performance. Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?

• A) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Cold HDD (sc1)
• B) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD (gp2)
• C) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
• D) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)

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