diff --git a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
index 8d30eae03276..8fa5e3e70d7b 100644
--- a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
+++ b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ def job_name(self):
     ],
     parallelism=None,
     pytest_num_workers=1,
-    resource_class=None,
+    resource_class="large",
     tests_to_run="tests/repo_utils",
 )