A company uses high block storage capacity on premises. The daily peak IOPS are no more than 15,000. The company wants to migrate workloads to Amazon EC2 and provision disk performance independently of storage capacity. Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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Correct answer: GP3 volume type.
Why this is the answer
GP3 volume type is the most cost-effective solution because it allows independent provisioning of IOPS and throughput from storage capacity. This means the company can provision the required 15,000 IOPS without over-provisioning storage, leading to cost savings. GP3 volumes offer a baseline of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MiB/s throughput, which can be scaled up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MiB/s.
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