diff --git a/terraform/environments/apex/application_variables.json b/terraform/environments/apex/application_variables.json
index 9792a80f59b..d2aca9e2ef6 100644
--- a/terraform/environments/apex/application_variables.json
+++ b/terraform/environments/apex/application_variables.json
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@
       "container_instance_type": "linux",
       "instance_type": "t3a.medium",
       "key_name": "",
-      "ec2_desired_capacity": 2,
+      "ec2_desired_capacity": 1,
       "ec2_max_size": 2,
       "ec2_min_size": 1,
-      "app_count": 1,
+      "app_count": 2,
       "appscaling_min_capacity": 1,
       "appscaling_max_capacity": 2,
       "ecs_scaling_cpu_threshold": 80,