diff --git a/services/terraform/self-host/variables.tf b/services/terraform/self-host/variables.tf
index de535a0ae..06253b7df 100644
--- a/services/terraform/self-host/variables.tf
+++ b/services/terraform/self-host/variables.tf
@@ -1,59 +1,60 @@
 variable "keyserver_domain_name" {
   description = "Domain name for your keyserver"
   type        = string
 }
 
 variable "landing_domain_name" {
   description = "Domain name for your landing page"
   type        = string
 }
 
 variable "webapp_domain_name" {
   description = "Domain name for your web app"
   type        = string
 }
 
 variable "region" {
   description = "Keyserver's AWS deployment region"
   type        = string
   default     = "us-west-1"
 }
 
 variable "allowed_ips" {
   description = "List of IPv4 addresses always allowed access to keyserver load balancer and MariaDB"
   type        = list(string)
 }
 
 variable "user_created_vpc" {
   description = "Use non-default vpc and subnets"
+  default     = false
 }
 
 variable "availability_zone_1" {
   description = "First availability zone for vpc subnet if user-created vpc"
   type        = string
   default     = "us-west-1b"
 }
 
 variable "availability_zone_2" {
   description = "Second availability zone for vpc subnet if user-created vpc"
   type        = string
   default     = "us-west-1c"
 }
 
 variable "db_instance_class" {
   description = "The instance class for MariaDB RDS"
   type        = string
   default     = "db.t4g.medium"
 }
 
 variable "desired_secondary_nodes" {
   description = "Desired number of secondary nodes"
   type        = number
   default     = 1
 }
 
 variable "custom_keyserver_image" {
   description = "Specify custom keyserver image. Should be reserved for development purposes"
   type        = string
   default     = null
 }