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Windows Server has supported "Core" editions of its products back to 2008 where the UI is simply a login screen and command prompt for remotely-managed/headless operation. In my experience most Windows admins still prefer the GUI. And while it does obviously save some resources not to load the full UI, the cost of the additional cores/memory to run it is minimal by comparison.

My actual point (which I didn't make as strongly as I could because post too long already), was that the initial allocation of IOPS was more than sufficient to handle multiple boots of either Linux or Windows.

not that I am aware of, but in the AWS case, that is a good use case to justify that as an option so to reduce the boot up time for auto scaling up