Analysts need EC2 with very high sequential disk throughput for large local-disk civic analytics. Which instance category should they prioritize?
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Short Explanation
When the bottleneck is chewing through local disks at high speed, storage-optimized instances are the right toolbox. Compute-optimized helps CPU-bound work; Mac instances and 'no local disk' myths do not fix sequential analytics I/O on EC2.
Full Explanation
Storage-optimized EC2 instance types provide high sequential throughput and IOPS for data-intensive workloads that benefit from large, fast local storage. Civic analytics that stream large datasets from instance storage illustrate this family choice. Compute-optimized and other families optimize different resources and may underperform for disk-bound patterns. Correct family selection is a core CLF compute awareness skill.