A new application is being developed with specific platform requirements.

For applications with significant disk I/O requirements, deploying directly on bare metal (physical servers) can provide the best performance and meet specific platform requirements.

Disk I/O Performance: Bare metal servers offer direct access to hardware resources, ensuring maximum disk I/O performance.

Automation: Modern infrastructure automation tools can fully automate the deployment, configuration, and management of bare metal servers.

Option C meets the requirements of significant disk I/O performance and full automation.