diff --git a/manifests/hermione-deployment.yaml b/manifests/hermione-deployment.yaml
index 6ff810d..7bdc838 100644
--- a/manifests/hermione-deployment.yaml
+++ b/manifests/hermione-deployment.yaml
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ spec:
               value: '300'
               
             - name: AZURE_REQUEST_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
-              value: '300000'            
+              value: '10000'            
             - name: AZURE_REQUEST_WRITE_TIMEOUT
-              value: '300000'
+              value: '10000'
             - name: AZURE_REQUEST_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT
-              value: '300000'
+              value: '20000'
             - name: AZURE_REQUEST_READ_TIMEOUT
-          value: '300000'
+          value: '20000'
             - name: FILE_UPLOAD_DIR
               value: /mnt/hermione_storage/hermione/file_input_scenarios/
           volumeMounts:
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 2f13669..caeb2b9 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ eureka.instance.preferIpAddress: true
  
 hermione.fe.url = http://localhost:5173
  
-spring.ai.vectorstore.chroma.client.host=http://128.251.239.194
-spring.ai.vectorstore.chroma.client.port=8000
+spring.ai.vectorstore.chroma.client.host=http://108.142.36.18
+spring.ai.vectorstore.chroma.client.port=80
 spring.ai.vectorstore.chroma.client.key-token=BxZWXFXC4UMSxamf5xP5SioGIg3FPfP7
 spring.ai.vectorstore.chroma.initialize-schema=true
 spring.ai.vectorstore.chroma.collection-name=olympus
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size=20MB
 spring.servlet.multipart.max-request-size=20MB
  
 file.upload-dir=/mnt/hermione_storage/documents/file_input_scenarios/
+# file.upload-dir=C:\\mnt\\hermione_storage\\documents\\file_input_scenarios\\
 
 
 generic-file-parser-module.url=http://generic-file-parser-module-service.olympus.svc.cluster.local:8080
@@ -76,3 +77,13 @@ jsp-parser-module.url: http://jsp-parser-module-service.olympus.svc.cluster.loca
 
 
 spring.security.oauth2.resourceserver.jwt.issuer-uri= https://sts.windows.net/e0793d39-0939-496d-b129-198edd916feb/
+
+# ------------------------------
+# SPRING AI RETRY / TIMEOUTS
+# ------------------------------
+spring.ai.retry.max-attempts=3
+spring.ai.retry.backoff=2000       # 2 seconds
+
+# Timeout for HTTP clients used by Spring AI / Chroma
+spring.ai.vectorstore.http.connect-timeout=10000   # 10 seconds
+spring.ai.vectorstore.http.read-timeout=20000     # 20 seconds
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