diff --git a/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml b/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
index d83acc844270..6d4effd1b278 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
+++ b/pkg/apis/crds/karpenter.k8s.aws_ec2nodeclasses.yaml
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ spec:
             type: object
         type: object
     served: true
-    storage: true
+    storage: false
     subresources:
       status: {}
   - name: v1beta1
@@ -1222,6 +1222,6 @@ spec:
             type: object
         type: object
     served: true
-    storage: false
+    storage: true
     subresources:
       status: {}
diff --git a/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go b/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go
index b526ed59f30e..2a114d21e82a 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/v1/ec2nodeclass.go
@@ -318,7 +318,6 @@ const (
 
 // EC2NodeClass is the Schema for the EC2NodeClass API
 // +kubebuilder:object:root=true
-// +kubebuilder:storageversion
 // +kubebuilder:resource:path=ec2nodeclasses,scope=Cluster,categories=karpenter,shortName={ec2nc,ec2ncs}
 // +kubebuilder:subresource:status
 type EC2NodeClass struct {
diff --git a/pkg/apis/v1beta1/ec2nodeclass.go b/pkg/apis/v1beta1/ec2nodeclass.go
index 58b0b67acc34..b3395dd3a60d 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/v1beta1/ec2nodeclass.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/v1beta1/ec2nodeclass.go
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ const (
 
 // EC2NodeClass is the Schema for the EC2NodeClass API
 // +kubebuilder:object:root=true
+// +kubebuilder:storageversion
 // +kubebuilder:resource:path=ec2nodeclasses,scope=Cluster,categories=karpenter,shortName={ec2nc,ec2ncs}
 // +kubebuilder:subresource:status
 type EC2NodeClass struct {