The AMI that you use to launch an EC2 instance determines the type of the root volume. The root volume of an EC2 instance is either an EBS volume or an instance store volume. Nitro-based instances support only EBS root volumes. The only instance types that support instance store root volumes are C1, C3, D2, I2, M1, M2, M3, R3, and X1.
To determine the root device type of an AMI using the console
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Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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In the navigation pane, choose AMIs, and select the AMI.
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On the Details tab, check the value of Root device type as follows:
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ebs– This is an EBS-backed AMI. -
instance store– This is an an instance store-backed AMI.
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To determine the root device type of an AMI using the command line
You can use one of the following commands.
describe-images
(AWS CLI) Get-EC2Image (AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell)
