A company is running a high-performance computing (HPC) workload on AWS. The workload consists of thousands of EC2 instances that need to read and write to a shared file system simultaneously. The file system must provide sub-millisecond latencies and millions of IOPS. Which storage solution should the architect choose?

Answer options:

Amazon EFS in Max I/O mode

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Amazon FSx for Lustre

Amazon S3 with S3 Transfer Acceleration

How to approach this question

Match 'HPC' and 'sub-millisecond shared file system' to FSx for Lustre.

Full Answer

C.Amazon FSx for Lustre✓ Correct

Amazon FSx for Lustre is a high-performance file system optimized for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, and financial modeling. It provides sub-millisecond latencies and millions of IOPS.

Common mistakes

Choosing EFS, which is a general-purpose file system not optimized for extreme HPC requirements.

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