4B - Configure Cloud Storage Solutions Flashcards
You are cloud storage manager and capacity planner for a well-known video game development company. The company publishes its games in-house. The game development team accelerated the development process of its new PC game by developing machine learning pipelines on Amazon Web Services (AWS), lowering operating costs by using AWS-managed services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
For their next big project, the team will require flexible and high-performance storage in the form of distinct storage blocks mounted onto an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. You will configure AWS Elastic Block Storage.
You will use four block-level storage volumes with the following parameters:
Use one volume for archiving old versions of files, basing it on cost-effectiveness.
Use the second volume for hosting active, working files. Aim for a balance between cost-effectiveness and performance. Performance of working files is high-use, intensive workloads.
Use the third volume as a boot volume, as well as for hosting development applications.
Use the fourth volume for testing the software in development. It requires a high-performance drive with no expense spared. Provision this volume based on Input/output operations per second (IOPS). It requires a minimum of 260,000 IOPS.
Budget allows for enabling bursting on only 1 instance.
Amazon recommends only RAID 0 be used with Amazon EBS, though 0,1,5 and 6 are all available.
Keep in mind that HDD volumes are only available at 250 and 500 IOPS.
Archives
RAID level
Media Type
Volume Sub-Type
Max IOPS/Instance
Enable burting?
RAID level:
0
Media Type:
HDD
Volume Sub-Type:
Cold
Max IOPS/Instance:
250
Enable burting:
no
Active File Hosting
RAID level
Media Type
Volume Sub-Type
Max IOPS/Instance
Enable burting?
RAID level:
0
Media Type:
HDD
Volume Sub-Type:
Throughput Optmized
Max IOPS/Instance:
500
Enable burting:
no
Boot Volume and Development Application Host
RAID level
Media Type
Volume Sub-Type
Max IOPS/Instance
Enable burting?
RAID level:
0
Media Type:
SSD
Volume Sub-Type:
General Purpose
Max IOPS/Instance:
260,00
Enable burting:
no
Software Testing and Sandboxing
RAID level
Media Type
Volume Sub-Type
Max IOPS/Instance
Enable burting?
RAID level:
0
Media Type:
SSD
Volume Sub-Type:
Provisioned IOPS
Max IOPS/Instance:
260,00
Enable burting:
Yes
