You are the architect for a business intelligence application that reads data from a MySQL database hosted on an EC2 Instance. The application experiences a high number of read and write requests.
Which Amazon EBS Volume type can meet the performance requirements of this database?

Answer options:

A.EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD
B.EBS Throughput Optimized HDD
C.EBS General Purpose SSD
D.EBS Cold HDD

Correct Answer – A
Since there is a Business intelligence requirement with a large number of read and write requests, one needs to opt for EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD.Reference:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolumeTypes.html