A Company Hosts an Application on an Amazon EC2 Instance

Multiple Choice

A company hosts an application on an Amazon EC2 instance that requires a maximum of 200 GB storage space. The application is used infrequently, with peaks during mornings and evenings. Disk I/O varies, but peaks at 3,000 IOPS. The chief financial officer of the company is concerned about costs and has asked a solutions architect to recommend the most cost-effective storage option that does not sacrifice performance. Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?

A) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Cold HDD (sc1)
B) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD (gp2)
C) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
D) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)