diff --git a/release/tools/ec2.conf b/release/tools/ec2.conf
index a233bf5981c..f8bfe091175 100644
--- a/release/tools/ec2.conf
+++ b/release/tools/ec2.conf
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ export VM_EXTRA_PACKAGES="${VM_EXTRA_PACKAGES} ebsnvme-id amazon-ssm-agent"
 # Services which should be enabled by default in rc.conf(5).
 export VM_RC_LIST="dev_aws_disk ntpd"
 
-# Build with a 4.9 GB partition; the growfs rc.d script will expand
+# Build with a 5.9 GB 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 filesystem partition, not the disk
 # which it resides within.
-export VMSIZE=5000m
+export VMSIZE=6000m
 
 # No swap space; it doesn't make sense to provision any as part of the disk
 # image when we could be launching onto a system with anywhere between 0.5