# Configure question

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-question/46484>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 6, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-question/46484 "2016-04-06T07:09:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Pal\_Thingbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@Pal\_Thingbo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pal_Thingbo)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-question/46484/1 "2016-04-06T07:09:01Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-question/46484/2 "2017-07-05T23:02:01Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:02pm UTC