Configure question

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I am trying to get logstash to work on AWS. I keep getting a "Connection timeout" error, and I'm wondering if the endpoint parameters are ok. In the doc, it says I should set "localhost" in the output host, but that doesn't work.

docker run mantika/logstash-dynamodb-streams -e '                                                           
input {                                                                                                     
        dynamodb{endpoint => "dynamodb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"                                             
        streams_endpoint => "streams.dynamodb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"                                      
        view_type => "new_and_old_images"                                                                   
        aws_access_key_id => "xxx"                                                         
        aws_secret_access_key => "xxx"                                 
        table_name => "users"}                                                                              
}                                                                                                           
filter {                                                                                                    
        dynamodb {}                                                                                         
}                                                                                                           
output {                                                                                                    
        elasticsearch                                                                                       
                { hosts => "search-elasticstories-sc4uwxniijz4xdz4xedphy3nda.us-west-2.es.amazonaws.com" }  
stdout {}                                                                                                   
}'

Running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS