diff --git a/buildlet/ec2_test.go b/buildlet/ec2_test.go
index 21897da..bbc6e36 100644
--- a/buildlet/ec2_test.go
+++ b/buildlet/ec2_test.go
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@
 			vmName:            "base_vm",
 			hostType:          "host-foo-bar",
 			opts:              &VMOpts{},
-			wantInstanceType:  "e2-highcpu-2",
+			wantInstanceType:  "e2-standard-8",
 			wantName:          "base_vm",
 			wantBuildletName:  "base_vm",
 			wantBuildletImage: "gcr.io/symbolic-datum-552/gobuilder-arm64-aws",
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
 			},
 			wantDesc:          "test description",
 			wantImageID:       "awesome_image",
-			wantInstanceType:  "e2-highcpu-2",
+			wantInstanceType:  "e2-standard-8",
 			wantName:          "base-vm",
 			wantZone:          "sa-west",
 			wantBuildletName:  "base-vm",
diff --git a/dashboard/builders.go b/dashboard/builders.go
index dd92174..af1a3ef 100644
--- a/dashboard/builders.go
+++ b/dashboard/builders.go
@@ -1384,9 +1384,9 @@
 		// so their /workdir tmpfs can be larger. The COS
 		// image has no swap, so we want to make sure the
 		// /workdir fits completely in memory.
-		return "e2-standard-4" // 4 vCPUs, 16 GB mem
+		return "e2-standard-16" // 16 vCPUs, 64 GB mem
 	}
-	return "e2-highcpu-2"
+	return "e2-standard-8" // 8 vCPUs, 32 GB mem
 }
 
 // IsEC2 returns true if the machine type is an EC2 arm64 type.
diff --git a/internal/coordinator/pool/ec2_test.go b/internal/coordinator/pool/ec2_test.go
index eb7e943..eb0cb34 100644
--- a/internal/coordinator/pool/ec2_test.go
+++ b/internal/coordinator/pool/ec2_test.go
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 		// set to default gce type because there is no way to set the machine
 		// type from outside of the buildenv package.
 		{
-			Type: "e2-standard-4",
-			CPU:  4,
+			Type: "e2-standard-16",
+			CPU:  16,
 		},
 	})
 	l.SetCPULimit(20)
@@ -175,9 +175,9 @@
 				cpuUsed:  0,
 				entries:  make(map[string]*entry),
 				types: map[string]*cloud.InstanceType{
-					"e2-highcpu-2": {
-						Type: "e2-highcpu-2",
-						CPU:  4,
+					"e2-standard-8": {
+						Type: "e2-standard-8",
+						CPU:  8,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@
 				cpuUsed:  0,
 				entries:  make(map[string]*entry),
 				types: map[string]*cloud.InstanceType{
-					"e2-highcpu-2": {
-						Type: "e2-highcpu-2",
-						CPU:  4,
+					"e2-standard-8": {
+						Type: "e2-standard-8",
+						CPU:  8,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -225,9 +225,9 @@
 				cpuUsed:  0,
 				entries:  make(map[string]*entry),
 				types: map[string]*cloud.InstanceType{
-					"e2-highcpu-2": {
-						Type: "e2-highcpu-2",
-						CPU:  4,
+					"e2-standard-8": {
+						Type: "e2-standard-8",
+						CPU:  8,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -250,9 +250,9 @@
 				cpuUsed:  0,
 				entries:  make(map[string]*entry),
 				types: map[string]*cloud.InstanceType{
-					"e2-highcpu-2": {
-						Type: "e2-highcpu-2",
-						CPU:  4,
+					"e2-standard-8": {
+						Type: "e2-standard-8",
+						CPU:  8,
 					},
 				},
 			},