diff --git a/deploy/pkg/k8s/monitoring.go b/deploy/pkg/k8s/monitoring.go
index 9f4aef3..c18600c 100644
--- a/deploy/pkg/k8s/monitoring.go
+++ b/deploy/pkg/k8s/monitoring.go
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ func deployGrafana(ctx *pulumi.Context, cluster *providers.ProviderInfo, ns *cor
 		OtherFields: map[string]any{
 			"spec": map[string]any{
 				"instances": 1,
+				"enablePDB": false,
 				"storage": map[string]any{
 					"size": "10Gi",
 				},
diff --git a/deploy/pkg/k8s/postgres.go b/deploy/pkg/k8s/postgres.go
index ec8e48e..57a28aa 100644
--- a/deploy/pkg/k8s/postgres.go
+++ b/deploy/pkg/k8s/postgres.go
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ func DeployPostgresDatabases(ctx *pulumi.Context, cluster *providers.ProviderInf
 		OtherFields: map[string]any{
 			"spec": map[string]any{
 				"instances": 1,
+				"enablePDB": false,
 				"storage": map[string]any{
 					"size": "50Gi",
 				},
diff --git a/deploy/pkg/providers/gcp/provider.go b/deploy/pkg/providers/gcp/provider.go
index 365f2fd..fe2513e 100644
--- a/deploy/pkg/providers/gcp/provider.go
+++ b/deploy/pkg/providers/gcp/provider.go
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func (p *Provider) CreateCluster(ctx *pulumi.Context, environment string) (*prov
 		// Node pool configuration
 		NodeCount: pulumi.Int(2),
 		NodeConfig: &container.NodePoolNodeConfigArgs{
-			MachineType: pulumi.String("e2-small"),
+			MachineType: pulumi.String("e2-standard-2"),
 			DiskSizeGb:  pulumi.Int(20),
 			DiskType:    pulumi.String("pd-standard"),
 		},