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Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services: Run description function (get_all_vpcs) failed: timeout: timed out

gekkula
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I get this error with most of the services. But others like S3, IAM work fine. I did the check assume role with console and it did have right permissions. Any other reason for time outs?

2018-01-17 22:51:18,846 level=ERROR pid=2679 tid=Thread-9 logger=splunk_ta_aws.modinputs.description.description pos=description.py:wrapper_func:101 | datainput="aws_account_aws" | message="Run description function (get_all_vpcs) failed." 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_aws/bin/splunk_ta_aws/modinputs/description/description.py", line 80, in wrapper_func
    return getattr(self.boto_client, item)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_aws/bin/3rdparty/boto/vpc/__init__.py", line 110, in get_all_vpcs
    return self.get_list('DescribeVpcs', params, [('item', VPC)])
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_aws/bin/3rdparty/boto/connection.py", line 1170, in get_list
    response = self.make_request(action, params, path, verb)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_aws/bin/3rdparty/boto/connection.py", line 1116, in make_request
    return self._mexe(http_request)
  File "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_aws/bin/3rdparty/boto/connection.py", line 1030, in _mexe
    raise ex
timeout: timed out
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gekkula
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This is for SPlunk 7 and Splunk Add-on for AWS 4.4.0

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