connect timeout exception

[PreethamRU]

using this code to connect to thing, however, failed to connect. Can you help me with this. Code is below

from AWSIoTPythonSDK.MQTTLib import AWSIoTMQTTClient

myMQTTClient = AWSIoTMQTTClient("random")

myMQTTClient.configureEndpoint("somenumber.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com", 8883)

myMQTTClient.configureCredentials("C:\Users\preetham\Desktop\awsiot\root-CA.crt", "C:\Users\preetham\Desktop\awsiot\SWM-Preetham.private.key", "C:\Users\preetham\Desktop\awsiot\SWM-Preetham.cert.pem")

myMQTTClient.configureOfflinePublishQueueing(-1) # Infinite offline Publish queueing
myMQTTClient.configureDrainingFrequency(2) # Draining: 2 Hz
myMQTTClient.configureConnectDisconnectTimeout(10) # 10 sec
myMQTTClient.configureMQTTOperationTimeout(5) # 5 sec

myMQTTClient.connect()

while 1:
myMQTTClient.publish("topic", "myPayload", 1)

[KaibaLopez]

Hi @PreethamRU , can you clarify a little, are you getting an error or are you timing out ? What is the code returning?

[rolandma]

It's possible that you don't have the correct policy. For demonstration of the python SDK, the policy it automatically created is only allowing several actions, and I had been struggling with the connect timeout too, but then I changed the policy for the thing that I created for the test to the following:
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "iot:",
"Resource": ""
}
]
}

That fixed my problem.