diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md b/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
index f58582ff1..28887ac64 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Removed
 
 - BREAKING: Removed `last_update_time` from CRD ClusterCondition status ([#1054]).
+- BREAKING: Removed role binding to legacy service accounts ([#1060]).
 
 [#1049]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1049
 [#1054]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1054
 [#1058]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1058
+[#1060]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1060
 
 ## [0.93.2] - 2025-05-26
 
diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/src/commons/rbac.rs b/crates/stackable-operator/src/commons/rbac.rs
index ddeb19e7a..7812d2d25 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-operator/src/commons/rbac.rs
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/src/commons/rbac.rs
@@ -28,24 +28,22 @@ pub enum Error {
 }
 
 /// Build RBAC objects for the product workloads.
-/// The `product_name` is meant to be the product name, for example: zookeeper, airflow, etc.
-/// and it is a assumed that a ClusterRole named `{product_name}-clusterrole` exists.
+/// The names of the service account and role binding match the following patterns:
+/// - `{resource_name}-serviceaccount`
+/// - `{resource_name}-rolebinding`
+///
+/// A previous version of this function used the `product_name` instead of the `resource_name`,
+/// but this caused conflicts when deploying multiple instances of a product in the same namespace.
+/// See <https://stackable.atlassian.net/browse/SUP-148> for more details.
+///
+/// The service account is bound to a cluster role named `{product_name}-clusterrole` which
+/// must already exist.
 pub fn build_rbac_resources<T: Clone + Resource<DynamicType = ()>>(
     resource: &T,
-    // 'product_name' is not used to build the names of the serviceAccount and roleBinding objects,
-    // as this caused problems with multiple clusters of the same product within the same namespace
-    // see <https://stackable.atlassian.net/browse/SUP-148> for more details.
-    // Instead the names for these objects are created by reading the name from the cluster object
-    // and appending [-rolebinding|-serviceaccount] to create unique names instead of using the
-    // same objects for multiple clusters.
     product_name: &str,
     labels: Labels,
 ) -> Result<(ServiceAccount, RoleBinding)> {
     let sa_name = service_account_name(&resource.name_any());
-    // We add the legacy serviceAccount name to the binding here for at least one
-    // release cycle, so that the switchover during the upgrade can be smoother.
-    // To be removed in v24.3+1.
-    let legacy_sa_name = service_account_name(product_name);
     let service_account = ServiceAccount {
         metadata: ObjectMetaBuilder::new()
             .name_and_namespace(resource)
@@ -74,22 +72,12 @@ pub fn build_rbac_resources<T: Clone + Resource<DynamicType = ()>>(
             name: format!("{product_name}-clusterrole"),
             api_group: "rbac.authorization.k8s.io".to_string(),
         },
-        subjects: Some(vec![
-            Subject {
-                kind: "ServiceAccount".to_string(),
-                name: sa_name,
-                namespace: resource.namespace(),
-                ..Subject::default()
-            },
-            // We add the legacy serviceAccount name to the binding here for at least one
-            // release cycle, so that the switchover during the upgrade can be smoother.
-            Subject {
-                kind: "ServiceAccount".to_string(),
-                name: legacy_sa_name,
-                namespace: resource.namespace(),
-                ..Subject::default()
-            },
-        ]),
+        subjects: Some(vec![Subject {
+            kind: "ServiceAccount".to_string(),
+            name: sa_name,
+            namespace: resource.namespace(),
+            ..Subject::default()
+        }]),
     };
 
     Ok((service_account, role_binding))