diff --git a/src/executors/node/smoke-executor.yml b/src/executors/node/smoke-executor.yml
index 0554eba2..085d7df8 100644
--- a/src/executors/node/smoke-executor.yml
+++ b/src/executors/node/smoke-executor.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-docker: # run the steps with Docker
+docker: # run the steps with Docker.
   - image: 168387678261.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ci-e2e-image:v1
     user: root
     aws_auth:
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ docker: # run the steps with Docker
       MKCERT_VERSION: v1.4.0
       NODE_VERSION: v20.10.0
       NODE_OPTIONS: --max_old_space_size=8192
+resource_class: xlarge
diff --git a/src/jobs/e2e/collect-e2e-logs.yml b/src/jobs/e2e/collect-e2e-logs.yml
index e75ac989..d1a41499 100644
--- a/src/jobs/e2e/collect-e2e-logs.yml
+++ b/src/jobs/e2e/collect-e2e-logs.yml
@@ -112,7 +112,19 @@ steps:
          last_component=${components[${#components[@]}-1]}
          kubectl describe pod $component -n $DEV_ENV_NAME >> "${LOG_DIR:?}/${KUBE_STATE_DIR:?}/${last_component}-k8-state.log"
 
+  - run:
+      name: Compress logs
+      environment:
+        LOG_DIR: *log_dir
+      command: |
+        mkdir -p /tmp/logs/compressed
+        cp -r ${LOG_DIR:?} /tmp/logs/compressed
+        tar -czf /tmp/logs.tar.gz /tmp/logs/compressed
   - store_artifacts:
-      name: Store Logs
+      name: Store uncompressed logs
       path: *log_dir
       destination: logs
+  - store_artifacts:
+      name: Store compressed logs
+      path: /tmp/logs.tar.gz
+      destination: compressed-logs.tar.gz