diff --git a/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.cc b/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.cc
index 639428783477..4fc6ad18bb52 100644
--- a/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.cc
+++ b/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.cc
@@ -553,13 +553,11 @@ void PlatformDependentEmbeddedFileWriter::AlignToCodeAlignment() {
 }
 
 void PlatformDependentEmbeddedFileWriter::AlignToDataAlignment() {
-#if defined(V8_OS_WIN) && defined(V8_TARGET_ARCH_ARM64)
-  // On Windows ARM64, instruction "ldr xt,[xn,v8_Default_embedded_blob_]" is
-  // generated by clang-cl to load elements in v8_Default_embedded_blob_.
-  // The generated instruction has scale 3 which requires the load target to be
-  // aligned at 8 bytes (2^3).
+  // On Windows ARM64, s390, PPC and possibly more platforms, aligned load
+  // instructions are used to retrieve v8_Default_embedded_blob_ and/or
+  // v8_Default_embedded_blob_size_. The generated instructions require the
+  // load target to be aligned at 8 bytes (2^3).
   fprintf(fp_, ".balign 8\n");
-#endif
 }
 
 void PlatformDependentEmbeddedFileWriter::Comment(const char* string) {
diff --git a/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.h b/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.h
index 55e134cd47f6..8323c4d53b78 100644
--- a/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.h
+++ b/src/snapshot/embedded-file-writer.h
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ class EmbeddedFileWriter : public EmbeddedFileWriterInterface {
 
       w->Comment("The size of the embedded blob in bytes.");
       w->SectionRoData();
+      w->AlignToDataAlignment();
       w->DeclareUint32(embedded_blob_size_symbol, blob->size());
       w->Newline();
     }