diff --git a/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/Configuration.cs b/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/Configuration.cs
index 7f11fb8b9..0db4e0c08 100644
--- a/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/Configuration.cs
+++ b/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/Configuration.cs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public abstract class UserAccessibleConfiguration
         public string SubscriptionId { get; set; }
         public string RegionName { get; set; }
         public string MainIdentifierPrefix { get; set; } = "tes";
-        public string VmSize { get; set; } = "Standard_D4s_v3";
+        public string VmSize { get; set; } = "Standard_B4ms";
         public string VnetAddressSpace { get; set; } = "10.1.0.0/16"; // 10.1.0.0 - 10.1.255.255, 65536 IPs
         // Address space for TES services.
         public string VmSubnetAddressSpace { get; set; } = "10.1.0.0/24"; // 10.1.0.0 - 10.1.0.255, 256 IPs
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public abstract class UserAccessibleConfiguration
         public bool ManualHelmDeployment { get; set; }
         public string HelmBinaryPath { get; set; } = OperatingSystem.IsWindows() ? @"C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\helm.exe" : "/usr/local/bin/helm";
         public string KubectlBinaryPath { get; set; } = OperatingSystem.IsWindows() ? @"C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\kubectl.exe" : "/usr/local/bin/kubectl";
-        public int AksPoolSize { get; set; } = 2;
+        public int AksPoolSize { get; set; } = 1;
         public bool? CrossSubscriptionAKSDeployment { get; set; } = null;
         public bool Silent { get; set; }
         public bool DeleteResourceGroupOnFailure { get; set; }
diff --git a/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/scripts/helm/templates/tes-deployment.yaml b/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/scripts/helm/templates/tes-deployment.yaml
index 828b1ef2c..cddabe196 100644
--- a/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/scripts/helm/templates/tes-deployment.yaml
+++ b/src/deploy-tes-on-azure/scripts/helm/templates/tes-deployment.yaml
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ spec:
             - containerPort: {{ .Values.service.tesPort }}
           resources:
             requests:
-              cpu: "1.5"
-              memory: "3072Mi"
+              cpu: "1.0"
+              memory: "1Gi"
             limits:
-              cpu: "8.0"
-              memory: "8192Mi"
+              cpu: "2.0"
+              memory: "4Gi"
           securityContext:
             allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
             capabilities: