diff --git a/deployment/environments/terraform-staging.tfvars b/deployment/environments/terraform-staging.tfvars
index 5ea56297f..f3a7aa3ef 100644
--- a/deployment/environments/terraform-staging.tfvars
+++ b/deployment/environments/terraform-staging.tfvars
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ rds_database_name = "opensupplyhub"
 rds_multi_az = false
 rds_storage_encrypted = true
 
-app_ecs_desired_count = "6"
+app_ecs_desired_count = "4"
 app_ecs_deployment_min_percent = "100"
 app_ecs_deployment_max_percent = "400"
 app_fargate_cpu = "1024"
diff --git a/doc/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/doc/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md
index 59f91944e..a63bf68cb 100644
--- a/doc/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md
+++ b/doc/release/RELEASE-NOTES.md
@@ -16,25 +16,12 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html
 #### Scheme changes
 * [OSDEV-1229](https://opensupplyhub.atlassian.net/browse/OSDEV-1229) - Created Moderation Events Postgres table to track moderation events in the database.
 
-### Database changes
-#### Migrations:
-* *Describe migrations here.*
-
-#### Scheme changes
-* *Describe scheme changes here.*
-
 ### Code/API changes
 * Throttling has been introduced for tiles/* endpoints, limiting requests to 300 per minute.
 * [OSDEV-1328](https://opensupplyhub.atlassian.net/browse/OSDEV-1328) The OpenSearch tokenizer has been changed to `lowercase` to get better search results when querying the GET /v1/production-locations/ endpoint.
 
 ### Architecture/Environment changes
-* *Describe architecture/environment changes here.*
-
-### Bugfix
-* *Describe bugfix here.*
-
-### What's new
-* *Describe what's new here. The changes that can impact user experience should be listed in this section.*
+* Resource allocation has been optimized for the staging environment. The number of ECS tasks for the Django app has been reduced from 6 to 4, while maintaining system stability.
 
 ### Release instructions:
 * Ensure that the following commands are included in the `post_deployment` command: