diff --git a/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/templates/deployment.yaml b/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/templates/deployment.yaml
index 009490b2f..d631d370b 100644
--- a/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -351,11 +351,22 @@ spec:
         - name: esp
           image:  "{{ $.Values.esp.image.repository }}{{- if $.Values.esp.image.tag -}}:{{ $.Values.esp.image.tag }}{{- end }}"
           imagePullPolicy: {{ $.Values.esp.image.pullPolicy }}
+          {{- $espResources := $group.espResources | default dict }}
+          {{- $espGlobalResources := dict }}
+          {{- if $.Values.esp }}
+            {{- $espGlobalResources = $.Values.esp.resources | default dict }}
+          {{- end }}
           resources:
             limits:
-              memory: "300M"
+              memory: {{ $espResources.memoryLimit | default $espGlobalResources.memoryLimit | default "300M" | quote }}
+              {{- if or $espResources.cpuLimit $espGlobalResources.cpuLimit }}
+              cpu: {{ $espResources.cpuLimit | default $espGlobalResources.cpuLimit | quote }}
+              {{- end }}
             requests:
-              memory: "300M"
+              memory: {{ $espResources.memoryRequest | default $espGlobalResources.memoryRequest | default "300M" | quote }}
+              {{- if or $espResources.cpuRequest $espGlobalResources.cpuRequest }}
+              cpu: {{ $espResources.cpuRequest | default $espGlobalResources.cpuRequest | quote }}
+              {{- end }}
           volumeMounts:
             - mountPath: /etc/espv2_config
               name: service-config-volume
diff --git a/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/values.yaml b/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/values.yaml
index 765eb7de7..65fe5932b 100644
--- a/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/helm_charts/mixer/values.yaml
@@ -366,11 +366,14 @@ esp:
     repository: gcr.io/endpoints-release/endpoints-runtime
     pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
     tag: "2"
+  resources:
+    memoryRequest: "300Mi"
+    memoryLimit: "300Mi"
 
 embeddingsSidecar:
   image:
-    # NOTE: This repository does not actually exist! 
-    # It is an alias used by Skaffold to map the datacommons-nl image 
+    # NOTE: This repository does not actually exist!
+    # It is an alias used by Skaffold to map the datacommons-nl image
     # (tagged as mixer-sidecar) to this specific sidecar container.
     # The actual image is injected by Cloud Build/Skaffold during deployment.
     repository: gcr.io/datcom-ci/datacommons-embeddings-sidecar
@@ -434,8 +437,9 @@ serviceGroups:
       - "/v2/bulk/info/variable-group"
     replicas: 1
     resources:
-      memoryRequest: "8G"
-      memoryLimit: "8G"
+      memoryRequest: "8Gi"
+      memoryLimit: "8Gi"
+      cpuRequest: "125m"
     cacheSVG: true
     # If the name of the recon service is changed here,
     # please also change the name in the deployment.yaml template.
@@ -446,8 +450,9 @@ serviceGroups:
       - "/v2/resolve"
     replicas: 1
     resources:
-      memoryRequest: "2G"
-      memoryLimit: "2G"
+      memoryRequest: "2Gi"
+      memoryLimit: "2Gi"
+      cpuRequest: "300m"
   observation:
     urlPaths:
       - "/bulk/stats"
@@ -457,8 +462,13 @@ serviceGroups:
       - "/v2/observation"
     replicas: 1
     resources:
-      memoryRequest: "4G"
-      memoryLimit: "8G"
+      memoryRequest: "8Gi"
+      memoryLimit: "8Gi"
+      cpuRequest: "1"
+    espResources:
+      # Higher memory to accomodate larger payloads
+      memoryRequest: "512Mi"
+      memoryLimit: "2Gi"
   node:
     urlPaths:
       - "/node/*"
@@ -471,13 +481,15 @@ serviceGroups:
       - "/v2/node"
     replicas: 1
     resources:
-      memoryRequest: "8G"
-      memoryLimit: "8G"
+      memoryRequest: "8Gi"
+      memoryLimit: "8Gi"
+      cpuRequest: "300m"
     cacheSVG: true
   default:
     urlPaths:
       - "/*"
     replicas: 1
     resources:
-      memoryRequest: "2G"
-      memoryLimit: "2G"
+      memoryRequest: "2Gi"
+      memoryLimit: "2Gi"
+      cpuRequest: "50m"