diff --git a/ansible/roles/conductor/templates/conductor-swarm-config.properties.j2 b/ansible/roles/conductor/templates/conductor-swarm-config.properties.j2
index 397fcc9..15dd945 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/conductor/templates/conductor-swarm-config.properties.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/conductor/templates/conductor-swarm-config.properties.j2
@@ -14,19 +14,22 @@ db=dynomite
 # Dynomite Cluster details.
 # format is host:port:rack separated by semicolon
 workflow.dynomite.cluster.hosts={% set ns = namespace() %}
-{% set ns.datacenter = "us-east-" %}
-{% set ns.current_rack = "" %}
-{% set ns.current_suffix = 0 %}
+{% set ns.availability_zone = "" %}
 {% for seed in seeds %}
 {%   set ns.seed_tokens = seed.split(':') %}
-{%   if ns.seed_tokens[2] != ns.current_rack %}
-{%     set ns.current_rack = ns.seed_tokens[2] %}
-{%     set ns.current_suffix = ns.current_suffix + 1 %}
+{%   if ns.availability_zone == "" %}
+{%     set ns.availability_zone = ns.seed_tokens[2] %}
+{%   endif %}
+{%   if ns.availability_zone == ns.seed_tokens[2] %}
+{{     ns.seed_tokens[0] }}:8102:{{ ns.availability_zone }}{%- if not loop.last %};{%- endif %}
 {%   endif %}
-{{ ns.seed_tokens[0] }}:8102:{{ ns.seed_tokens[3] }}-{{ ns.current_suffix }}{%- if not loop.last %};{%- endif %}
 {%- endfor %}
 
 
+# If you are running using dynomite, also add the following line to the property 
+# to set the rack/availability zone of the conductor server to be same as dynomite cluster config
+EC2_AVAILABILTY_ZONE={{ ns.availability_zone }}
+
 # Dynomite cluster name
 workflow.dynomite.cluster.name=dyno1
 
@@ -37,7 +40,7 @@ workflow.namespace.prefix=conductor
 workflow.namespace.queue.prefix=conductor_queues
 
 # No. of threads allocated to dyno-queues (optional)
-queues.dynomite.threads=10
+queues.dynomite.threads=3
 
 # Non-quorum port used to connect to local redis.  Used by dyno-queues.
 # When using redis directly, set this to the same port as redis server
diff --git a/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/dynomite-service.yaml.j2 b/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/dynomite-service.yaml.j2
index 3a8e61b..cd63d05 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/dynomite-service.yaml.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/dynomite-service.yaml.j2
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
         restart_policy:
           condition: on-failure
           delay: 5s
-          max_attempts: 3
-          window: 120s
+          #max_attempts: 3
+          #window: 120s
       configs:
         - source: seeds.list
           target: /dynomite/seeds.list
diff --git a/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/seeds.list.j2 b/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/seeds.list.j2
index 5292f2c..25314c2 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/seeds.list.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/dynomite/templates/seeds.list.j2
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+{% set datacenter  = "us-east-1" %}
 {% for replica in range(1,dynomite_replicas+1) %}
 {% set replicaloop = loop %}
 {% for shard in range(1,dynomite_shards+1) %}
-dynomite{{ (replicaloop.index - 1) * dynomite_shards + shard}}:8101:rack{{ replicaloop.index }}:datacenter1:{{ (shard - 1) * (4294967295 // dynomite_shards) }}
+dynomite{{ (replicaloop.index - 1) * dynomite_shards + shard}}:8101:{{ datacenter }}{{ "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"[replicaloop.index - 1] }}:{{ datacenter }}:{{ (shard - 1) * (4294967295 // dynomite_shards) }}
 {% endfor %}
 {% endfor %}