diff --git a/aws-parallelcluster-node-master/src/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.py b/aws-parallelcluster-node-master/src/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.py
index f372f58..e8f195c 100755
--- a/aws-parallelcluster-node-master/src/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.py
+++ b/aws-parallelcluster-node-master/src/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def _get_metadata(metadata_path):
     :return the metadata value.
     """
     try:
-        metadata_value = requests.get("http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/{0}".format(metadata_path)).text
+        metadata_value = requests.get("https://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/{0}".format(metadata_path)).text
     except Exception as e:
         error_msg = "Unable to get {0} metadata. Failed with exception: {1}".format(metadata_path, e)
         log.critical(error_msg)