AWS Lambda cannot connect to Kinesis Firehose "Max retries exceeded with url"

Question

I've followed several tutorials and added different IAM configurations and security groups to keep things as open and obvious as possible and nothing has worked. Here is the debug log, and the main error pasted below. Let me know if there's any other data I should add to make this clear.

[DEBUG] 2016-09-22T13:57:40.965Z    5b770867-80cc-11e6-b5b8-018d2de39616    ConnectionError received when sending HTTP request.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/runtime/botocore/endpoint.py", line 174, in _get_response
proxies=self.proxies, timeout=self.timeout)
File "/var/runtime/botocore/vendored/requests/sessions.py", line 573, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/var/runtime/botocore/vendored/requests/adapters.py", line 419, in send
raise ConnectTimeout(e, request=request)
ConnectTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='firehose.us-east-1.amazonaws.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<botocore.awsrequest.AWSHTTPSConnection object at 0x7fbbc4c92c10>, 'Connection to firehose.us-east-1.amazonaws.com timed out. (connect timeout=60)'))

Answer 1

Please follow my answer in this thread. This will explain how to make lambda contact any service on the internet (such as S3, kinesis and so).