# Chef provisioning timeout

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-provisioning-timeout/7428>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [December 10, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-provisioning-timeout/7428 "2015-12-10T23:40:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![keferoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d2c977/32.png) [@keferoff](https://discourse.chef.io/u/keferoff)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-provisioning-timeout/7428/1 "2015-12-10T23:40:13Z")

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Hi!  
I get an timeout error because aws instance can not initialize in time and i need increase 120 seconds time out. How can I do that?  
Thanks in advance!

# Exact error log is: - been waiting 110/120 – sleeping 10 seconds for web (i-4ccee388 on aws) to become connectable …[2015-12-10T16:52:21-06:00] INFO: Executing sudo pwd on [ubuntu@52.33.230.34](mailto:ubuntu@52.33.230.34)

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Error executing action `converge` on resource 'machine[web]'

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```
RuntimeError
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Instance web (i-4ccee388 on aws) did not become connectable within 120 seconds
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