diff --git a/apps/api/tests/test_workload_database_identity_projection.py b/apps/api/tests/test_workload_database_identity_projection.py
index 90bdf27eb..d41ac01bb 100644
--- a/apps/api/tests/test_workload_database_identity_projection.py
+++ b/apps/api/tests/test_workload_database_identity_projection.py
@@ -297,6 +297,18 @@ def test_cd_uses_live_spec_rollback_and_non_mutating_post_verifier() -> None:
     )
 
 
+def test_api_has_capacity_for_the_production_concurrency_verifier() -> None:
+    container = _deployment_container(
+        "k8s/awoooi-prod/06-deployment-api.yaml",
+        "api",
+    )
+
+    assert container["resources"] == {
+        "requests": {"cpu": "500m", "memory": "512Mi"},
+        "limits": {"cpu": "2", "memory": "1Gi"},
+    }
+
+
 def test_cd_workload_db_identity_retries_transient_worker_rollout_race(
     tmp_path: Path,
 ) -> None:
diff --git a/k8s/awoooi-prod/06-deployment-api.yaml b/k8s/awoooi-prod/06-deployment-api.yaml
index bddd5f646..b8a8317f9 100644
--- a/k8s/awoooi-prod/06-deployment-api.yaml
+++ b/k8s/awoooi-prod/06-deployment-api.yaml
@@ -279,10 +279,12 @@ spec:
               mountPath: /tmp/awoooi-prometheus-multiproc
           resources:
             requests:
-              cpu: "200m"
+              # The production 8-way read verifier saturated the former 1-core
+              # limit and caused liveness restarts despite ample node/quota headroom.
+              cpu: "500m"
               memory: "512Mi"
             limits:
-              cpu: "1"
+              cpu: "2"
               memory: "1Gi"
           livenessProbe:
             httpGet: