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A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 Instances with an Amazon RDS MySQL
Multi-AZ DB instance. Amazon RDS is configured with the latest generation instance with 2,000 GB of storage in a General Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon Elastic
Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The database performance affects the application during periods of high demand.
A database administrator analyzes the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs and discovers that the application performance always degrades when the number of read and write IOPS is higher than 20,000.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the application performance?

A. Replace the volume with a magnetic volume.
B. Increase the number of IOPS on the gp3 volume.
C. Replace the volume with a Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) volume.
D. Replace the 2,000 GB volume with two 1,000 GB gp3 volumes.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

by jw1806 at Sept. 27, 2022, 6:08 a.m.

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jw1806

2 years, 8 months ago

Selected Answer: C

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1/io2) 16000 - 64000 IOPS, c seems to be good to handle the iops.

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