diff --git a/src/usr/sbin/one-contextd b/src/usr/sbin/one-contextd
index 6c27c66..67bd18c 100755
--- a/src/usr/sbin/one-contextd
+++ b/src/usr/sbin/one-contextd
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ function get_new_context {
         vmtoolsd --cmd 'info-get guestinfo.opennebula.context' | \
             openssl base64 -d > ${CONTEXT_NEW}
 
-    elif curl -s -o ${CONTEXT_NEW} http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data; then
+    elif curl -s -m 30 -o ${CONTEXT_NEW} http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data; then
         log debug "Reading EC2 user-data"
         echo -n ""
     fi