diff --git a/heron/schedulers/src/java/com/twitter/heron/scheduler/aurora/AuroraScheduler.java b/heron/schedulers/src/java/com/twitter/heron/scheduler/aurora/AuroraScheduler.java
index 569be96..48f1367 100644
--- a/heron/schedulers/src/java/com/twitter/heron/scheduler/aurora/AuroraScheduler.java
+++ b/heron/schedulers/src/java/com/twitter/heron/scheduler/aurora/AuroraScheduler.java
@@ -92,13 +92,16 @@
 
     LOG.info("Launching topology in aurora");
 
-    // Align the cpu, ram, disk to the maximal one
+    // Align the cpu, ram, disk to the maximal one, and set them to ScheduledResource
     PackingPlan updatedPackingPlan = packing.cloneWithHomogeneousScheduledResource();
     SchedulerUtils.persistUpdatedPackingPlan(Runtime.topologyName(runtime), updatedPackingPlan,
         Runtime.schedulerStateManagerAdaptor(runtime));
 
+    // Use the ScheduledResource to create aurora properties
+    // the ScheduledResource is guaranteed to be set after calling
+    // cloneWithHomogeneousScheduledResource in the above code
     Resource containerResource =
-        updatedPackingPlan.getContainers().iterator().next().getRequiredResource();
+        updatedPackingPlan.getContainers().iterator().next().getScheduledResource().get();
     Map<AuroraField, String> auroraProperties = createAuroraProperties(containerResource);
 
     return controller.createJob(auroraProperties);