Chef times out syncing cookbooks in EC2

Question

Following the getting started tutorial here:

https://learnchef.opscode.com/starter-use-cases/multi-node-ec2/

Chef fails trying to sync cookbooks when I try to use an ubuntu 13 AMI.

The knife command is as follows:

knife ec2 server create --availability-zone us-east-1d --node-name redis.learnchef.demo --flavor t1.micro --image ami-ad184ac4 --identity-file ~/.ssh/my.pem --run-list 'role[redis]' --ssh-user ubuntu --security-group salt-dev

Error Syncing Cookbooks:
Error connecting to https://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/opscode-platform-production-data/organization-... - Connection timed out - connect(2)
Your chef_server_url may be misconfigured, or the network could be down.
Relevant Config Settings:
chef_server_url  "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/xx-chef"

I'm new to Chef and having a hell of a time getting anywhere useful with it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

That error is coming back from AWS's S3, not Chef. I believe AWS might have had an outage during that time. Is this still an issue for you?

If this is still an issue, can you please post your full knife.rb and the entire stack trace you see when running the command?