diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-environment/resources/volume.rb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-environment/resources/volume.rb
index 58e38a9c1..12b120795 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-environment/resources/volume.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-environment/resources/volume.rb
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
   directory shared_dir do
     owner 'root'
     group 'root'
-    mode '1777'
+    mode mode new_resource.mode
   end
 end