AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 516

A user is trying to create a PIOPS EBS volume with 3 GB size and 90 IOPS. Will AWS create the volume?

Answer options

• A. No, since the PIOPS and EBS size ratio is less than 30
• B. Yes, since the ratio between EBS and IOPS is less than 30
• C. No, the EBS size is less than 4GB
• D. Yes, since PIOPS is higher than 100

Correct answer: C

Explanation

AWS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 and io2) volumes have a strict minimum size requirement of 4 GiB. Since the user is attempting to create a 3 GB volume, AWS will reject the creation request. The other options are incorrect because they reference incorrect ratio constraints or volume size thresholds.