diff --git a/pkg/cmd/roachtest/tests/restore.go b/pkg/cmd/roachtest/tests/restore.go
index 2584ce5e698c..dce7c75ee44b 100644
--- a/pkg/cmd/roachtest/tests/restore.go
+++ b/pkg/cmd/roachtest/tests/restore.go
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachpb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachprod/install"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachprod/logger"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachprod/vm"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/testutils"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/testutils/sqlutils"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/ts/tspb"
@@ -537,18 +536,6 @@ func (hw hardwareSpecs) makeClusterSpecs(r registry.Registry, backupCloud string
 	}
 	s := r.MakeClusterSpec(hw.nodes+addWorkloadNode, clusterOpts...)
 
-	if backupCloud == spec.AWS && s.VolumeSize != 0 {
-		// Work around an issue that RAID0s local NVMe and GP3 storage together:
-		// https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/98783.
-		//
-		// TODO(srosenberg): Remove this workaround when 98783 is addressed.
-		// TODO(miral): This now returns an error instead of panicking, so even though
-		// we haven't panicked here before, we should handle the error. Moot if this is
-		// removed as per TODO above.
-		s.AWS.MachineType, _, _ = spec.SelectAWSMachineType(s.CPUs, s.Mem, false /* shouldSupportLocalSSD */, vm.ArchAMD64)
-		s.AWS.MachineType = strings.Replace(s.AWS.MachineType, "d.", ".", 1)
-		s.Arch = vm.ArchAMD64
-	}
 	return s
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/roachprod/vm/aws/support.go b/pkg/roachprod/vm/aws/support.go
index 5437a9df7e2d..b1abe03e79b4 100644
--- a/pkg/roachprod/vm/aws/support.go
+++ b/pkg/roachprod/vm/aws/support.go
@@ -50,19 +50,44 @@ mount_opts="defaults"
 
 use_multiple_disks='{{if .UseMultipleDisks}}true{{end}}'
 
-disks=()
 mount_prefix="/mnt/data"
 
+# if the use_multiple_disks is not set and there are more than 1 disk (excluding the boot disk),
+# then the disks will be selected for RAID'ing. If there are both EC2 NVMe Instance Storage and
+# EBS, RAID'ing in this case can cause performance differences. So, to avoid this,
+# EC2 NVMe Instance Storage are ignored.
+# Scenarios: 
+#   (local SSD = 0, Network Disk - 1)  - no RAID'ing and mount network disk
+#   (local SSD = 1, Network Disk - 0)  - no RAID'ing and mount local SSD
+#   (local SSD >= 1, Network Disk = 1) - no RAID'ing and mount network disk
+#   (local SSD > 1, Network Disk = 0)  - local SSDs selected for RAID'ing
+#   (local SSD >= 0, Network Disk > 1) - network disks selected for RAID'ing
+# Keep track of the Local SSDs and EBS volumes for RAID'ing
+local_disks=()
+ebs_volumes=()
+
 # On different machine types, the drives are either called nvme... or xvdd.
 for d in $(ls /dev/nvme?n1 /dev/xvdd); do
   if ! mount | grep ${d}; then
-    disks+=("${d}")
+		if udevadm info --query=property --name=${d} | grep "ID_MODEL=Amazon Elastic Block Store"; then
+			echo "EBS Volume ${d} identified!"
+			ebs_volumes+=("${d}")
+		else
+			local_disks+=("${d}")
+		fi
     echo "Disk ${d} not mounted, need to mount..."
   else
     echo "Disk ${d} already mounted, skipping..."
   fi
 done
 
+# use only EBS volumes if available and ignore EC2 NVMe Instance Storage
+disks=()
+if [ "${#ebs_volumes[@]}" -gt "0" ]; then
+	disks=("${ebs_volumes[@]}")
+else
+	disks=("${local_disks[@]}")
+fi
 
 if [ "${#disks[@]}" -eq "0" ]; then
   mountpoint="${mount_prefix}1"
diff --git a/pkg/roachprod/vm/gce/utils.go b/pkg/roachprod/vm/gce/utils.go
index 9b88b8c3862f..0e6353dea848 100644
--- a/pkg/roachprod/vm/gce/utils.go
+++ b/pkg/roachprod/vm/gce/utils.go
@@ -72,7 +72,23 @@ for d in $(ls /dev/nvme?n? /dev/disk/by-id/google-persistent-disk-[1-9]); do
   zpool list -v -P | grep ${d} > /dev/null
   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
 {{ else }}
-for d in $(ls /dev/disk/by-id/google-local-* /dev/disk/by-id/google-persistent-disk-[1-9]); do
+# if the use_multiple_disks is not set and there are more than 1 disk (excluding the boot disk),
+# then the disks will be selected for RAID'ing. If there are both Local SSDs and Persistent disks,
+# RAID'ing in this case can cause performance differences. So, to avoid this, local SSDs are ignored.
+# Scenarios: 
+#   (local SSD = 0, Persistent Disk - 1) - no RAID'ing and Persistent Disk mounted
+#   (local SSD = 1, Persistent Disk - 0) - no RAID'ing and local SSD mounted
+#   (local SSD >= 1, Persistent Disk = 1) - no RAID'ing and Persistent Disk mounted
+#   (local SSD > 1, Persistent Disk = 0) - local SSDs selected for RAID'ing
+#   (local SSD >= 0, Persistent Disk > 1) - network disks selected for RAID'ing
+disk_list=()
+if [ "$(ls /dev/disk/by-id/google-persistent-disk-[1-9]|wc -l)" -eq "0" ]; then
+	disk_list=$(ls /dev/disk/by-id/google-local-*)
+else
+  echo "Only persistent disks are selected."
+	disk_list=$(ls /dev/disk/by-id/google-persistent-disk-[1-9])
+fi
+for d in ${disk_list}; do
   if ! mount | grep ${d}; then
 {{ end }}
     disks+=("${d}")