What is the hard disk type used for the root volume in an EC2 instance and why/?

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Anirudh C S · Accepted Answer

SSD hard disk is used for root volumes, as every operation has to interact with the OS, which is stored in the root volume, the IOPS(I/O Operations Per Second) metric should be high, which is only true for SSDs.

What is the hard disk type used for the root volume in an EC2 instance and why/?

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