diff --git a/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/aws.yml b/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/aws.yml
index b5b9e152ac12a637a46520ff9308491052032b64..c9e682fa2eb482e7a2eab7940305e08c35d5b190 100644
--- a/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/aws.yml
+++ b/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/aws.yml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ sdms_aws-containerize:
       - merge_requests
 
 sdms_aws-update-eks:
+  allow_failure: true
   extends:
     - .aws-update-eks
   needs: ['sdms_aws-containerize']
diff --git a/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/ibm.yml b/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/ibm.yml
index d8c73b56715609fc758851863cad034f7e72cfd3..9b7abba64ce4cb3b5dde129f83621f777556bbf5 100644
--- a/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/ibm.yml
+++ b/app/sdms/devops/osdu/cloud-providers/ibm.yml
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ sdms_ibm-test-py:
     - svctoken=$(python3 ../../devops/scripts/ibm_jwt_client.py)
     - echo $svctoken > /dev/null
     - npm install -g newman
+    - npm install
     - chmod +x ./tests/e2e/run_e2e_tests.sh
     - ./tests/e2e/run_e2e_tests.sh --seistore-svc-url="https://${SEISMIC_HOST}/api/v3" --seistore-svc-api-key="NA" --user-idtoken="$svctoken" --tenant="${IBM_SEISMIC_E2E_TENANT}" --admin-email="${IBM_SEISMIC_E2E_ADMIN_EMAIL}" --datapartition="${IBM_SEISMIC_E2E_DATA_PARTITION}" --legaltag01="${IBM_SEISMIC_E2E_LEGALTAG01}" --legaltag02="${IBM_SEISMIC_E2E_LEGALTAG02}" --newuser="${IBM_SEISMIC_E2E_NEWUSER}" --VCS-Provider="gitlab"  --subproject="${IBM_SEISMIC_E2E_SUBPROJECT}"
   only:
diff --git a/app/sdms/src/cloud/providers/azure/credentials.ts b/app/sdms/src/cloud/providers/azure/credentials.ts
index d28341b9c11fe78a4b377d957a511cabda11180e..5c9f5d44af8b46ad84680afcfd7eb6d3aff044d7 100644
--- a/app/sdms/src/cloud/providers/azure/credentials.ts
+++ b/app/sdms/src/cloud/providers/azure/credentials.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import {ExponentialRetryPolicyOptions} from '@azure/core-rest-pipeline'
 import { AccessToken, GetTokenOptions } from '@azure/core-auth';
 
 const KExpiresMargin = 300; // 5 minutes
-const UserDelegationKeyValidityInMinutes = 60 * 4; // 4 hours
+const UserDelegationKeyValidityInMinutes = 3599; // expires at the same time as the sas token
 const ExpirationLeadInMinutes = 15; // expire 15 minutes before actual date
 const SasExpirationInMinutes = 3599; // shortly under 2.5 days
 
@@ -238,4 +238,5 @@ class RetriableAzureCredential extends DefaultAzureCredential {
             .then(res => prom)
             .catch(err => this.retry(fn, retries - 1))
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+    
+}