Reply To: Problem in question on EC2 High IOPS

[PeterMescher]

An i3.xlarge will only provide those massive iOPS to Instance Storage. Since the requirement didn’t mention the data would be ephemeral, that would be a pretty awful thing to assume, given the loss in case of the instance stopping.

A RAID0 or 10 array of io-class vols to an accelerated compute instance is the answer here.

(And in any case, the wrong answer isn’t wrong. Instance Store is unlikely to be suitable, and certainly of the EBS-based answers, the io1s are correct. “That’s not an instance type” certainly isn’t a sufficient explanation as to why it’s not correct, since the question didn’t ask for an instance type.)

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by  PeterMescher.