F\or each cloud candidate or VNF, Conductor now fetches a field called 'flavors' from A&AI (the code below).

def _get_flavors(self, cloud_owner, cloud_region_id):
'''
Fetch all flavors of a given cloud regions specified using

/

composite key
:return flavors_info json object which list of flavor nodes and
its children - HPACapabilities:
'''
LOG.debug("Fetch all flavors and its child nodes HPACapabilities")
flavor_path = constants.FLAVORS_URI % (cloud_owner, cloud_region_id)
path = self._aai_versioned_path(flavor_path)
...

However, AAI seems to take a lot of time to respond to the query when the information isn't available. Hence, the data component would take much more time (30 seconds vs 3 minutes) to initialize and translate a plan or order.