Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage timers in association with border gateway protocol (BGP) connections in a computing environment. In at least one example, a management service identifies a deployment configuration of gateways in a computing environment and identifies one or more BGP connections for timer updates in the computing environment based on the deployment configuration. Once the one or more BGP connections are identified, the management service configures one or more of the gateways to reduce one or more timers associated with reconnecting the one or more BGP connections in response to a failure.