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Choose the best storage option

publish date: 2024/08/07 22:53:11.107794 UTC

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You're an architect for an ecommerce company that wants to run their MySQL database on an EC2 instance. This database needs a storage layer to store their order and customer information. The database will frequently be accessed and updated, so the storage layer needs to respond quickly. It's important that the storage is fast and durable.

Which AWS storage service should you use? 

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Amazon S3
Amazon instance store
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Correct Answer

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Explanation

We are choosing Amazon EBS and not Amazon instance store because it's an ecommerce company, their order and customer data is what drives the business, which means the persistence and durability of that data is really important. Using EC2 instance store would definitely give us the speed we're looking for, but it wouldn't give us the durability needed to store this data long term.

Reference

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