OpenShift master service fails on reading EC2 meta-data

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

During the installation of OpenShift Container Platform on AWS EC2, the ansible playbook fails on:

Unable to start service atomic-openshift-master-api: Job for atomic-openshift-master-api.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.

In the log from the master-api service the following error message appears:

Jan 01 10:10:57 master1 atomic-openshift-master-api[24562]: F0101 10:10:57.297456   24562 start_api.go:67] could not init cloud provider "aws": error fetching instance-id from ec2 metadata service: UnknownError: unknown error

Environment

OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 on AWS EC2

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