AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 84

A company is planning to deploy SAP HANA on AWS. The block storage that hosts the SAP HANA data volume must have at least 64,000 IOPS per volume and must have a maximum throughput of at least 500 MiB/s per volume.

Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume meets these requirements?

Answer options

• A. General Purpose SSD (gp2) EBS volume
• B. General Purpose SSD (gp3) EBS volume
• C. Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volume
• D. Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) EBS volume

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) EBS volume is designed for high performance and can meet the required IOPS and throughput specifications, making it the correct choice. The General Purpose SSD (gp2) and (gp3) volumes do not provide sufficient IOPS for this use case, while the Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volume is not suitable for high IOPS requirements.