diff --git a/chart/templates/s3proxy/deployment.yaml b/chart/templates/s3proxy/deployment.yaml
index 87f58f5..c01169f 100644
--- a/chart/templates/s3proxy/deployment.yaml
+++ b/chart/templates/s3proxy/deployment.yaml
@@ -95,9 +95,18 @@ spec:
             runAsUser: 1000
             readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
             allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+          # Drain on scale-in: the sleep keeps the pod accepting while it drops
+          # out of the headless-service DNS (HAProxy stops routing new
+          # connections), then SIGTERM lets uvicorn finish in-flight requests.
+          # Killing a pod mid-UploadPart/UploadPartCopy orphans multipart state
+          # and the client's CompleteMultipartUpload fails with InvalidPart.
+          lifecycle:
+            preStop:
+              exec:
+                command: ["sleep", "10"]
       securityContext:
         fsGroup: 1000
-      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: {{ .Values.terminationGracePeriodSeconds }}
       {{- with .Values.nodeSelector }}
       nodeSelector:
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
diff --git a/chart/values.yaml b/chart/values.yaml
index 441ddb9..da27f30 100644
--- a/chart/values.yaml
+++ b/chart/values.yaml
@@ -152,6 +152,13 @@ resources:
     cpu: "500m"
     memory: "512Mi"
 
+# Must cover the longest single request: one large UploadPart/UploadPartCopy
+# can run for minutes against a slow backend, and cutting it off mid-flight
+# orphans multipart state (InvalidPart on complete). uvicorn exits as soon as
+# in-flight requests finish, so a generous ceiling costs nothing in the
+# common case.
+terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 600
+
 # s3proxy container probes. Overridable so deployments can tolerate a busy
 # single event loop: under heavy upload load a probe can take seconds to be
 # served, and a tight liveness timeout restarts a live pod (drops in-flight