diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/files/grub-ec2.cfg b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/files/grub-ec2.cfg
index aebcc16329..d1d06adf15 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/files/grub-ec2.cfg
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/files/grub-ec2.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # CoreOS GRUB settings for EC2
 
 # Blacklist the Xen framebuffer module so it doesn't get loaded at boot
-set linux_append="modprobe.blacklist=xen_fbfront"
+# Disable `ens3` style names, so eth0 is used for both ixgbevf or xen.
+set linux_append="modprobe.blacklist=xen_fbfront net.ifnames=0"
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/oem-ec2-compat-0.0.3-r2.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/oem-ec2-compat-0.0.3-r3.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/oem-ec2-compat-0.0.3-r2.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-ec2-compat/oem-ec2-compat-0.0.3-r3.ebuild