diff --git a/inventory/sample/group_vars/etcd.yml b/inventory/sample/group_vars/etcd.yml
index cbc388e43e2b91e60cd4f3232dba19f163f451b8..6c6765ed630fda60679128f8ac8060b61ac0191c 100644
--- a/inventory/sample/group_vars/etcd.yml
+++ b/inventory/sample/group_vars/etcd.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 ## Etcd has a default of 2G for its space quota. If you put a value in etcd_memory_limit which is less than
 ## etcd_quota_backend_bytes, you may encounter out of memory terminations of the etcd cluster. Please check
 ## etcd documentation for more information.
-# etcd_quota_backend_bytes: "2G"
+# etcd_quota_backend_bytes: "2147483648"
 
 ### ETCD: disable peer client cert authentication.
 # This affects ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH variable
diff --git a/roles/etcd/defaults/main.yml b/roles/etcd/defaults/main.yml
index 8d0e6c49b4d8af8a67d4fa4f3340f41fa3a6d811..f20d8640dedb1315e5b2e439c93b510d5741a3ec 100644
--- a/roles/etcd/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/etcd/defaults/main.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ etcd_extra_vars: {}
 # Limit memory only if <4GB memory on host. 0=unlimited
 etcd_memory_limit: "{% if ansible_memtotal_mb < 4096 %}512M{% else %}0{% endif %}"
 
-# etcd_quota_backend_bytes: "2G"
+# etcd_quota_backend_bytes: "2147483648"
 
 # Uncomment to set CPU share for etcd
 # etcd_cpu_limit: 300m
diff --git a/roles/kubernetes/master/defaults/main/etcd.yml b/roles/kubernetes/master/defaults/main/etcd.yml
index 1cced21b7e504bcac0278cd588f9dd04320002f4..cfd2394f5f980da955b4985cf75ad8826edc62c5 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes/master/defaults/main/etcd.yml
+++ b/roles/kubernetes/master/defaults/main/etcd.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ etcd_metrics: "basic"
 ## Note this is different from the etcd role with ETCD_ prfexi, caps, and underscores
 etcd_extra_vars: {}
 
-# etcd_quota_backend_bytes: "2G"
+# etcd_quota_backend_bytes: "2147483648"
 
 etcd_compaction_retention: "8"