diff --git a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.aws.yml b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.aws.yml
index 17fd123d..384790c3 100644
--- a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.aws.yml
+++ b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.aws.yml
@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ services:
   clusters-keeper:
     deploy:
       replicas: 1
-  resource-usage-tracker:
-    deploy:
-      replicas: 3
+
   static-webserver:
     hostname: "{{.Node.Hostname}}-{{.Service.Name}}"
 
diff --git a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.dalco.yml b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.dalco.yml
index f182956f..72b74f69 100644
--- a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.dalco.yml
+++ b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.dalco.yml
@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ services:
       placement:
         constraints:
           - node.role == worker
-  resource-usage-tracker:
-    deploy:
-      replicas: 3
+
   traefik:
     command:
       - "--api=true"
diff --git a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.public.yml b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.public.yml
index fe97ef83..613e2d67 100644
--- a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.public.yml
+++ b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.public.yml
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ services:
         constraints:
           - node.labels.postgres==true
 
-  resource-usage-tracker:
-    deploy:
-      replicas: 3
   static-webserver:
     hostname: "{{.Node.Hostname}}-{{.Service.Name}}"
   traefik:
diff --git a/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml b/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml
index eb2ca1bb..ae919eb7 100644
--- a/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ services:
       # NOTE: https://github.com/ITISFoundation/osparc-simcore/pull/4286
       # NOTE: this MUSTN'T change, or weird things might happen
       # this will stay until all legacy dynamic services are gone.
-      replicas: 1
+      replicas: ${RESOURCE_USAGE_TRACKER_REPLICAS}
       update_config:
         parallelism: 2
         order: start-first