A Company Runs an Application on a Fleet of Amazon

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A company runs an application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application requires low latency and random access to 100 GB of data. The application must be able to access the data at up to 3.000 IOPS. A Development team has configured the EC2 launch template to provision a 100-GB Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) Amazon EBS volume with 3 000 IOPS provisioned. A Solutions Architect is tasked with lowering costs without impacting performance and durability. Which action should be taken?

• A) Create an Amazon EFS file system with the performance mode set to Max I/O. Configure the EC2 operating system to mount the EFS file system.
• B) Create an Amazon EFS file system with the throughput mode set to Provisioned. Configure the EC2 operating system to mount the EFS file system.
• C) Update the EC2 launch template to allocate a new 1-TB EBS General Purpose SSO (gp2) volume.
• D) Update the EC2 launch template to exclude the PIOPS volume. Configure the application to use local instance storage.

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