diff --git a/1.architectures/2.aws-parallelcluster/templates/parallelcluster-prerequisites-p1.yaml b/1.architectures/2.aws-parallelcluster/templates/parallelcluster-prerequisites-p1.yaml
index 316c03f9..4eeb7c17 100644
--- a/1.architectures/2.aws-parallelcluster/templates/parallelcluster-prerequisites-p1.yaml
+++ b/1.architectures/2.aws-parallelcluster/templates/parallelcluster-prerequisites-p1.yaml
@@ -306,8 +306,6 @@ Resources:
         DataCompressionType: !Ref Compression
         DeploymentType: PERSISTENT_1
         PerUnitStorageThroughput: !Ref PerUnitStorageThroughput
-        MetadataConfiguration:
-          Mode: AUTOMATIC
 
 
   OpenZFSFileSystem: