diff --git a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsconfig.sh b/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsconfig.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fa35e9fb..000000000
--- a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsconfig.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) HashiCorp, Inc.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BUSL-1.1
-
-set -e
-
-# These tasks can't be executed during AMI builds because they rely on
-# instance-specific data.
-
-mkdir -p /var/run/dnsmasq
-mkdir -p /etc/dnsmasq.d
-
-# Add hostname to /etc/hosts
-echo "127.0.0.1 $(hostname)" | tee --append /etc/hosts
-
-# this script should run after docker.service but we can't guarantee
-# it's created docker0 yet, so wait to make sure
-while ! (ip link | grep -q docker0)
-do
-    sleep 1
-done
-
-# Use dnsmasq first and then docker bridge network for DNS resolution
-DOCKER_BRIDGE_IP_ADDRESS=$(docker network inspect bridge --format='{{(index .IPAM.Config 0).Gateway}}')
-cat <<EOF > /tmp/resolv.conf
-nameserver 127.0.0.1
-nameserver $DOCKER_BRIDGE_IP_ADDRESS
-EOF
-cp /tmp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
-
-# need to get the interface for dnsmasq config so that we can
-# accomodate both "predictable" and old-style interface names
-IFACE=$(ip route | grep default | awk '{print "interface="$5}')
-
-cat <<EOF > /tmp/dnsmasq
-port=53
-resolv-file=/var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf
-bind-interfaces
-interface=docker0
-interface=lo
-$IFACE
-listen-address=127.0.0.1
-server=/consul/127.0.0.1#8600
-EOF
-cp /tmp/dnsmasq /etc/dnsmasq.d/default
-
-# need to get the AWS DNS address from the VPC...
-# this is pretty hacky but will work for any typical case
-MAC=$(curl -s --fail http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/mac)
-CIDR_BLOCK=$(curl -s --fail "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/$MAC/vpc-ipv4-cidr-block")
-VPC_DNS_ROOT=$(echo "$CIDR_BLOCK" | cut -d'.' -f1-3)
-echo "nameserver ${VPC_DNS_ROOT}.2" > /tmp/dnsmasq-resolv.conf
-cp /tmp/dnsmasq-resolv.conf /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf
-
-/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --test
diff --git a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsmasq b/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsmasq
deleted file mode 100644
index 42b06f6e5..000000000
--- a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsmasq
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-port=53
-resolv-file=/var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf
-bind-interfaces
-interface=docker0
-interface=lo
-interface=eth0
-listen-address=127.0.0.1
-server=/consul/127.0.0.1#8600
diff --git a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsmasq.service b/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsmasq.service
deleted file mode 100644
index 93b7c97e3..000000000
--- a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/dnsmasq.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
-Requires=network.target
-Wants=nss-lookup.target
-Before=nss-lookup.target
-After=network.target
-After=docker.service
-
-[Service]
-Type=forking
-PIDFile=/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid
-
-# Configure our hosts and resolver file with info from the host,
-# then test the resulting config file before starting
-ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/dnsconfig.sh
-
-# (from upstream)
-# We run dnsmasq via the /etc/init.d/dnsmasq script which acts as a
-# wrapper picking up extra configuration files and then execs dnsmasq
-# itself, when called with the "systemd-exec" function.
-ExecStart=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-exec
-
-# (from upstream)
-# The systemd-*-resolvconf functions configure (and deconfigure)
-# resolvconf to work with the dnsmasq DNS server. They're called like
-# this to get correct error handling (ie don't start-resolvconf if the
-# dnsmasq daemon fails to start.
-ExecStartPost=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-start-resolvconf
-
-# We need to tell docker to pick up the changes
-ExecStartPost=/bin/systemctl restart docker
-
-ExecStop=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-stop-resolvconf
-ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/setup.sh b/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/setup.sh
index bcc3c0ca0..c8fa3dd14 100755
--- a/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/setup.sh
+++ b/e2e/terraform/packer/ubuntu-jammy-amd64/setup.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get upgrade -y
 sudo apt-get install -y \
      software-properties-common \
-     dnsmasq unzip tree redis-tools jq curl tmux awscli nfs-common \
+     unzip tree redis-tools jq curl tmux awscli nfs-common \
      apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg2 stress
 
 # Install hc-install
@@ -135,37 +135,6 @@ echo "Installing Envoy"
 sudo curl -s -S -L -o /opt/bin/envoy https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/download/v1.29.4/envoy-1.29.4-linux-x86_64
 sudo chmod +x /opt/bin/envoy
 
-# ECS
-if [ -a "/tmp/linux/nomad-driver-ecs" ]; then
-    echo "Installing nomad-driver-ecs"
-    sudo install --mode=0755 --owner=ubuntu /tmp/linux/nomad-driver-ecs "$NOMAD_PLUGIN_DIR"
-else
-    echo "nomad-driver-ecs not found: skipping install"
-fi
-
-echo "Configuring dnsmasq"
-
-# disable systemd stub resolver
-sudo sed -i 's|#DNSStubListener=yes|DNSStubListener=no|g' /etc/systemd/resolved.conf
-
-# disable systemd-resolved and configure dnsmasq to forward local requests to
-# consul. the resolver files need to dynamic configuration based on the VPC
-# address and docker bridge IP, so those will be rewritten at boot time.
-sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved.service
-sudo systemctl stop systemd-resolved.service
-sudo mv /tmp/linux/dnsmasq /etc/dnsmasq.d/default
-sudo chown root:root /etc/dnsmasq.d/default
-
-# this is going to be overwritten at provisioning time, but we need something
-# here or we can't fetch binaries to do the provisioning
-echo 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' > /tmp/resolv.conf
-sudo mv /tmp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
-
-sudo mv /tmp/linux/dnsmasq.service /etc/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service
-sudo mv /tmp/linux/dnsconfig.sh /usr/local/bin/dnsconfig.sh
-sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dnsconfig.sh
-sudo systemctl daemon-reload
-
 echo "Updating boot parameters"
 
 # enable cgroup_memory and swap
diff --git a/e2e/terraform/provision-infra/provision-nomad/etc/nomad.d/client-linux.hcl b/e2e/terraform/provision-infra/provision-nomad/etc/nomad.d/client-linux.hcl
index ef9a33efe..941e18490 100644
--- a/e2e/terraform/provision-infra/provision-nomad/etc/nomad.d/client-linux.hcl
+++ b/e2e/terraform/provision-infra/provision-nomad/etc/nomad.d/client-linux.hcl
@@ -22,14 +22,6 @@ plugin "nomad-driver-podman" {
   }
 }
 
-plugin "nomad-driver-ecs" {
-  config {
-    enabled = true
-    cluster = "nomad-rtd-e2e"
-    region  = "us-east-1"
-  }
-}
-
 plugin "raw_exec" {
   config {
     enabled = true