diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/MetadataConfig.java b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/MetadataConfig.java
index 5c9550fe8530..7d6673c03628 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/MetadataConfig.java
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/MetadataConfig.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  */
 public class MetadataConfig {
 
-  private static final String METADATA_URL = "http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/";
+  private static final String METADATA_URL = "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/";
 
   private MetadataConfig() {}