diff --git a/release/tools/ec2.conf b/release/tools/ec2.conf
index 45417e856d2d..aac87e93e28b 100644
--- a/release/tools/ec2.conf
+++ b/release/tools/ec2.conf
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ fi
 # Set to a list of third-party software to enable in rc.conf(5).
 export VM_RC_LIST="ec2_configinit ec2_fetchkey ec2_loghostkey firstboot_freebsd_update firstboot_pkgs ntpd dev_aws_disk"
 
-# Build with a 3.9 GB UFS partition; the growfs rc.d script will expand
+# Build with a 4.9 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=4000M
+export VMSIZE=5000M
 
 # 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