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Generally I agree with the take that throughput oriented means getting better performance/throughput.
However, I think for this one specifically though in AWS cert context, if you look @ https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/cold-hdd/, the use case section has exactly this language: “Throughput-oriented storage for data that is infrequently accessed”.
I think the other hint on the question here that drives to this as the correct answer is the last statement that it is used to store historical data & infrequently accessed.
TLDR; I don’t like that language being used either, but it’s pulled direct from AWS doc page.
