Hey, Matt -

It looks like we had the same issue and solved it differently. I didn't see your JIRA due to the default filter going to "cloudformation-plugin" instead of "jenkins-cloudformation". Anyway, I looked over your solution, and it looks like we came up with basically the same thing. One caveat - does yours work in Hudson as well? I know that's probably not a primary concern since this is a Jenkins plugin, but my team uses it in Hudson, so I've tested my solution in both Hudson and Jenkins. Now that I've found this JIRA, I'm going to close out mine as a duplicate.

Anyone has the fix for this I am having the same issue.

Feb 12, 2016 1:24:54 PM com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient executeHelper
INFO: Unable to execute HTTP request: connect timed out
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java:618)
at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:524)
at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:403)
at com.amazonaws.http.conn.ssl.SdkTLSSocketFactory.connectSocket(SdkTLSSocketFactory.java:118)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:177)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.open(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:304)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryConnect(DefaultRequestDirector.java:611)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:446)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.doExecute(AbstractHttpClient.java:863)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeOneRequest(AmazonHttpClient.java:686)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeHelper(AmazonHttpClient.java:461)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:296)
at com.amazonaws.services.cloudformation.AmazonCloudFormationClient.invoke(AmazonCloudFormationClient.java:1273)
at com.amazonaws.services.cloudformation.AmazonCloudFormationClient.createStack(AmazonCloudFormationClient.java:631)
at com.syncapse.jenkinsci.plugins.awscloudformationwrapper.CloudFormation.create(CloudFormation.java:203)
at com.syncapse.jenkinsci.plugins.awscloudformationwrapper.CloudFormationBuildStep.perform(CloudFormationBuildStep.java:90)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:45)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:782)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.build(Build.java:205)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:162)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:534)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1738)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:410)

Hey, Alex - the attached Patch should fix the issue. I'm still waiting (and hoping) for it to get integrated into an upcoming release.

Hi Joshua ... thanks for the quick help. I did the install via war file in tomcat and not sure how to apply this patch. Can you please point to the correct location and process on installing this patch?

Ah. In order to use the patch, you will have to download the code. From there, the patch is a diff file for you to apply, and then build the code. Sorry that it's not pre-built. (That's why I'd like it to be in the next release - so it's much easier to use.)