diff --git a/Godeps/Godeps.json b/Godeps/Godeps.json
index 545c51e526a..948e889dca2 100644
--- a/Godeps/Godeps.json
+++ b/Godeps/Godeps.json
@@ -578,93 +578,93 @@
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/api",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/cache/memory",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/collector",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/container",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/events",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/fs",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/healthz",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/http",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/info/v1",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/info/v2",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/manager",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/metrics",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/pages",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/storage",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/summary",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/utils",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/validate",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/cadvisor/version",
-			"Comment": "v0.22.0",
-			"Rev": "e39fb02c89f2b39808bc1723108cde5bb510e102"
+			"Comment": "v0.22.1",
+			"Rev": "b344feb952c13e0730fa52eb5e5cf1cf7130ee9c"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/google/gofuzz",
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/info/v1/machine.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/info/v1/machine.go
index 89be47e4c1c..74a5df49c3d 100644
--- a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/info/v1/machine.go
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/info/v1/machine.go
@@ -121,11 +121,11 @@ type NetInfo struct {
 type CloudProvider string
 
 const (
-	GCE            CloudProvider = "GCE"
-	AWS                          = "AWS"
-	Azure                        = "Azure"
-	Baremetal                    = "Baremetal"
-	UnkownProvider               = "Unknown"
+	GCE             CloudProvider = "GCE"
+	AWS                           = "AWS"
+	Azure                         = "Azure"
+	Baremetal                     = "Baremetal"
+	UnknownProvider               = "Unknown"
 )
 
 type InstanceType string
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/aws.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/aws.go
index c51e446ce02..9190ec0859e 100644
--- a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/aws.go
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/aws.go
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 package cloudinfo
 
 import (
+	"time"
+
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/ec2metadata"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
@@ -23,7 +25,13 @@ import (
 )
 
 func onAWS() bool {
-	client := ec2metadata.New(session.New(&aws.Config{}))
+	// the default client behavior retried the operation multiple times with a 5s timeout per attempt.
+	// if you were not on aws, you would block for 20s when invoking this operation.
+	// we reduce retries to 0 and set the timeout to 2s to reduce the time this blocks when not on aws.
+	client := ec2metadata.New(session.New(&aws.Config{MaxRetries: aws.Int(0)}))
+	if client.Config.HTTPClient != nil {
+		client.Config.HTTPClient.Timeout = time.Duration(2 * time.Second)
+	}
 	return client.Available()
 }
 
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/cloudinfo.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/cloudinfo.go
index 78c5fc3eab7..ad4ce5abe45 100644
--- a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/cloudinfo.go
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/google/cadvisor/utils/cloudinfo/cloudinfo.go
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func detectCloudProvider() info.CloudProvider {
 	case onBaremetal():
 		return info.Baremetal
 	}
-	return info.UnkownProvider
+	return info.UnknownProvider
 }
 
 func detectInstanceType(cloudProvider info.CloudProvider) info.InstanceType {