You have launched an EC2 instance with four (4) 500 GB EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes attached. The EC2
Instance is EBS-Optimized and supports 500 Mbps throughput between EC2 and EBS. The two EBS volumes
are configured as a single RAID 0 device, and each Provisioned IOPS volume is provisioned with 4,000 IOPS
(4000 16KB reads or writes) for a total of 16,000 random IOPS on the instance. The EC2 Instance initially
delivers the expected 16,000 IOPS random read and write performance. Sometime later in order to increase
the total random I/O performance of the instance, you add an additional two 500 GB EBS Provisioned IOPS
volumes to the RAID. Each volume is provisioned to 4,000 IOPS like the original four for a total of 24,000 IOPS
on the EC2 instance Monitoring shows that the EC2 instance CPU utilization increased from 50% to 70%, but
the total random IOPS measured at the instance level does not increase at all. What is the problem and a valid
solution?

A.
Larger storage volumes support higher Provisioned IOPS rates: increase the provisioned volume storage of
each of the 6 EBS volumes to 1TB.

B.
The EBS-Optimized throughput limits the total IOPS that can be utilized use an EBS-Optimized instance
that provides larger throughput.

C.
Small block sizes cause performance degradation, limiting the I’O throughput, configure the instance device
driver and file system to use 64KB blocks to increase throughput.

D.
RAID 0 only scales linearly to about 4 devices, use RAID 0 with 4 EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes but
increase each Provisioned IOPS EBS volume to 6.000 IOPS.E. The standard EBS instance root volume limits the total IOPS rate, change the instant root volume to also be
a 500GB 4.000 Provisioned IOPS volume.