diff --git a/providers/hpcloud-object-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/hpcloud/object/storage/HPCloudObjectStorageProviderMetadata.java b/providers/hpcloud-object-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/hpcloud/object/storage/HPCloudObjectStorageProviderMetadata.java
index 37a3cb714b..b967a1ed8b 100644
--- a/providers/hpcloud-object-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/hpcloud/object/storage/HPCloudObjectStorageProviderMetadata.java
+++ b/providers/hpcloud-object-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/hpcloud/object/storage/HPCloudObjectStorageProviderMetadata.java
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ public class HPCloudObjectStorageProviderMetadata extends BaseProviderMetadata {
     */
    @Override
    public Set<String> getLinkedServices() {
-      return ImmutableSet.of("hpcloud-object-storage", "hpcloud-compute");
+      return ImmutableSet.of("hpcloud-object-storage");
    }
 
    /**