diff --git a/release/tools/ec2.conf b/release/tools/ec2.conf
index 4a7a1e809ec..924e7876001 100644
--- a/release/tools/ec2.conf
+++ b/release/tools/ec2.conf
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ export VM_EXTRA_PACKAGES="ec2-scripts firstboot-freebsd-update firstboot-pkgs du
 # Set to a list of third-party software to enable in rc.conf(5).
 export VM_RC_LIST="ec2_configinit ec2_fetchkey ec2_ephemeralswap ec2_loghostkey firstboot_freebsd_update firstboot_pkgs"
 
-# Build with a 2 GB UFS partition; the growfs rc.d script will expand
+# Build with a 3 GB UFS partition; the growfs rc.d script will expand
 # the partition to fill the root disk after the EC2 instance is launched.
 # Note that if this is set to <N>G, we will end up with an <N+1> GB disk
 # image since VMSIZE is the size of the UFS partition, not the disk which
 # it resides within.
-export VMSIZE=2048M
+export VMSIZE=3072M
 
 # No swap space; the ec2_ephemeralswap rc.d script will allocate swap
 # space on EC2 ephemeral disks.  (If they exist -- the T2 low-cost instances