diff --git a/tenants/ai-example/multi-model-serving/base/data-connection.yaml b/tenants/ai-example/multi-model-serving/base/data-connection.yaml
index 07bf72e5..e142e1cc 100644
--- a/tenants/ai-example/multi-model-serving/base/data-connection.yaml
+++ b/tenants/ai-example/multi-model-serving/base/data-connection.yaml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     opendatahub.io/connection-type: s3
     openshift.io/display-name: multi-model
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "-100"
 stringData:
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: minio
   AWS_S3_BUCKET: multi-model
diff --git a/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-tgis/base/data-connection.yaml b/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-tgis/base/data-connection.yaml
index 4c7b1f92..a39bae1a 100644
--- a/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-tgis/base/data-connection.yaml
+++ b/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-tgis/base/data-connection.yaml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     opendatahub.io/connection-type: s3
     openshift.io/display-name: tgis
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "-100"
 stringData:
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: minio
   AWS_S3_BUCKET: tgis
diff --git a/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-vllm/base/data-connection.yaml b/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-vllm/base/data-connection.yaml
index b6270b62..49851bef 100644
--- a/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-vllm/base/data-connection.yaml
+++ b/tenants/ai-example/single-model-serving-vllm/base/data-connection.yaml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     opendatahub.io/connection-type: s3
     openshift.io/display-name: vllm
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "-100"
 stringData:
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: minio
   AWS_S3_BUCKET: vllm