diff --git a/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py b/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py
index 53b0690f9..6e5bc6c0e 100644
--- a/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py
+++ b/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ __author__ = 'itay.mizeretz'
 class AWS(object):
     def __init__(self):
         try:
-            self.instance_id = urllib2.urlopen('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id').read()
+            self.instance_id = urllib2.urlopen('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id', timeout=2).read()
         except urllib2.URLError:
             self.instance_id = None