diff --git a/prow/cluster/jobs/istio/envoy/istio.envoy.release-1.10.gen.yaml b/prow/cluster/jobs/istio/envoy/istio.envoy.release-1.10.gen.yaml
index 77af58ad070..d4299774d63 100644
--- a/prow/cluster/jobs/istio/envoy/istio.envoy.release-1.10.gen.yaml
+++ b/prow/cluster/jobs/istio/envoy/istio.envoy.release-1.10.gen.yaml
@@ -1,65 +1,4 @@
 # THIS FILE IS AUTOGENERATED. See prow/config/README.md
-periodics:
-- annotations:
-    testgrid-alert-email: istio-oncall@googlegroups.com
-    testgrid-dashboards: istio_release-1.10_envoy_periodic
-    testgrid-num-failures-to-alert: "1"
-  decorate: true
-  decoration_config:
-    timeout: 4h0m0s
-  extra_refs:
-  - base_ref: release-1.10
-    org: istio
-    path_alias: istio.io/envoy
-    repo: envoy
-  - base_ref: master
-    org: istio
-    path_alias: istio.io/test-infra
-    repo: test-infra
-  interval: 24h
-  name: update-envoy_envoy_release-1.10_periodic
-  spec:
-    containers:
-    - command:
-      - ../test-infra/tools/automator/automator.sh
-      - --org=istio
-      - --repo=envoy
-      - '--title=Automator: merge upstream changes to $AUTOMATOR_ORG/$AUTOMATOR_REPO@$AUTOMATOR_BRANCH'
-      - --labels=tide/merge-method-merge
-      - --modifier=merge_upstream_changes
-      - --token-path=/etc/github-token/oauth
-      - --merge-repository=https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy.git
-      - --merge-branch=release/v1.18
-      image: gcr.io/istio-testing/build-tools:release-1.10-2021-04-06T22-07-25
-      name: ""
-      resources:
-        limits:
-          cpu: "64"
-          ephemeral-storage: 1790G
-          memory: 240G
-        requests:
-          cpu: "48"
-          ephemeral-storage: 1500G
-          memory: 180G
-      securityContext:
-        privileged: true
-      volumeMounts:
-      - mountPath: /home/prow/go/pkg
-        name: build-cache
-        subPath: gomod
-      - mountPath: /etc/github-token
-        name: github
-        readOnly: true
-    nodeSelector:
-      testing: build-pool
-    volumes:
-    - hostPath:
-        path: /tmp/prow/cache
-        type: DirectoryOrCreate
-      name: build-cache
-    - name: github
-      secret:
-        secretName: oauth-token
 postsubmits:
   istio/envoy:
   - annotations:
diff --git a/prow/config/jobs/envoy-1.10.yaml b/prow/config/jobs/envoy-1.10.yaml
index 5704f612659..516fb76f5c2 100644
--- a/prow/config/jobs/envoy-1.10.yaml
+++ b/prow/config/jobs/envoy-1.10.yaml
@@ -54,24 +54,6 @@ jobs:
   image: gcr.io/istio-testing/build-tools:release-1.10-2021-04-06T22-07-25
   timeout: 4h
 
-- name: update-envoy
-  types: [periodic]
-  interval: 24h
-  command:
-  - ../test-infra/tools/automator/automator.sh
-  - --org=istio
-  - --repo=envoy
-  - "--title=Automator: merge upstream changes to $AUTOMATOR_ORG/$AUTOMATOR_REPO@$AUTOMATOR_BRANCH"
-  - --labels=tide/merge-method-merge
-  - --modifier=merge_upstream_changes
-  - --token-path=/etc/github-token/oauth
-  - --merge-repository=https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy.git
-  - --merge-branch=release/v1.18
-  requirements: [github]
-  repos: [istio/test-infra@master]
-  image: gcr.io/istio-testing/build-tools:release-1.10-2021-04-06T22-07-25
-  timeout: 4h
-
 resources:
   default:
     requests:
diff --git a/testgrid/config.yaml b/testgrid/config.yaml
index 2cd5d5dbd09..3f79fbdbcc4 100644
--- a/testgrid/config.yaml
+++ b/testgrid/config.yaml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ dashboards:
 - name: istio_release-1.10_api_postsubmit
 - name: istio_release-1.10_tools_postsubmit
 - name: istio_release-1.10_release-builder_postsubmit
-- name: istio_release-1.10_envoy_periodic
+# - name: istio_release-1.10_envoy_periodic
 - name: istio_release-1.9_istio
 - name: istio_release-1.9_api
 - name: istio_release-1.9_client-go