You work for a market analysis firm who are designing a new environment. They will ingest large amounts of
market data via Kinesis and then analyze this data using Elastic Map Reduce. The data is then imported in to a
high performance NoSQL Cassandra database which will run on EC2 and then be accessed by traders from
around the world. The database volume itself will sit on 2 EBS volumes that will be grouped into a RAID 0
volume. They are expecting very high demand during peak times, with an IOPS performance level of
approximately 15,000. Which EBS volume should you recommend?
A.
Magnetic
B.
General Purpose SSD
C.
Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS)
D.
Turbo IOPS (TIOPS)
Explanation:
Ans: C