diff --git a/charts/karpenter-crd/templates/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml b/charts/karpenter-crd/templates/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
index 9cd8875f0ce1..ba7c649bbf8b 100644
--- a/charts/karpenter-crd/templates/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
+++ b/charts/karpenter-crd/templates/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
@@ -228,9 +228,6 @@ spec:
                           RootVolume is a flag indicating if this device is mounted as kubelet root dir. You can
                           configure at most one root volume in BlockDeviceMappings.
                         type: boolean
-                    required:
-                      - deviceName
-                      - ebs
                     type: object
                   maxItems: 50
                   type: array
diff --git a/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml b/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
index 19ff2dbcc842..8674a85109eb 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
+++ b/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
@@ -228,9 +228,6 @@ spec:
                           RootVolume is a flag indicating if this device is mounted as kubelet root dir. You can
                           configure at most one root volume in BlockDeviceMappings.
                         type: boolean
-                    required:
-                      - deviceName
-                      - ebs
                     type: object
                   maxItems: 50
                   type: array
diff --git a/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go b/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go
index 0ec8e6e8d7d3..2eb3ed4f1ef5 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go
@@ -324,11 +324,11 @@ type MetadataOptions struct {
 
 type BlockDeviceMapping struct {
 	// The device name (for example, /dev/sdh or xvdh).
-	// +required
+	// +optional
 	DeviceName *string `json:"deviceName,omitempty"`
 	// EBS contains parameters used to automatically set up EBS volumes when an instance is launched.
 	// +kubebuilder:validation:XValidation:message="snapshotID or volumeSize must be defined",rule="has(self.snapshotID) || has(self.volumeSize)"
-	// +required
+	// +optional
 	EBS *BlockDevice `json:"ebs,omitempty"`
 	// RootVolume is a flag indicating if this device is mounted as kubelet root dir. You can
 	// configure at most one root volume in BlockDeviceMappings.