If you need very fast NVME storage, io1 is an option.

Each unit contained 48 200-gigabyte 15K SAS drives in a RAID6 6+2 configuration, for a total usable Jordan Robertson, Jarrett Cohen, NASA/Goddard This photograph depicts one unit of the Discover supercomputer’s original two-unit spinning disk metadata solution. production, IOPS thresholds hovered around 120,000 IOPS per array.D_V2-series (Standard D3 v2 (4 cores, 14 GB memory) Local SSD disk = 28 GB SSD disk Cache = 172 Max IOPS = 12,800 Max Bandwidth = 192 MB per second D:\ disk random access 4k block size.