diff --git a/scripts/xdist/pytest_worker_manager.py b/scripts/xdist/pytest_worker_manager.py
index bccd03e0be..28b7e1909d 100644
--- a/scripts/xdist/pytest_worker_manager.py
+++ b/scripts/xdist/pytest_worker_manager.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class PytestWorkerManager():
     """
     Responsible for spinning up and terminating EC2 workers to be used with pytest-xdist
     """
-    WORKER_BOOTUP_TIMEOUT_MINUTES = 5
+    WORKER_BOOTUP_TIMEOUT_MINUTES = 10
     WORKER_SSH_ATTEMPTS = 10
     MAX_RUN_WORKER_RETRIES = 7