S3_PING for EAP on AWS throws java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out

Issue

• S3_PING throws a following exception during starting up EAP

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 80) MSC000001: Failed to start service org.wildfly.clustering.jgroups.channel.ee: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service org.wildfly.clustering.jgroups.channel.ee: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out (Connection timed out)
    at org.wildfly.clustering.service.FunctionalService.start(FunctionalService.java:70)
    at org.wildfly.clustering.service.AsyncServiceConfigurator$AsyncService.lambda$start$0(AsyncServiceConfigurator.java:117)
    at org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1985)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1487)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1378)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:485)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out (Connection timed out)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ChannelServiceConfigurator.get(ChannelServiceConfigurator.java:116)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ChannelServiceConfigurator.get(ChannelServiceConfigurator.java:58)
    at org.wildfly.clustering.service.FunctionalService.start(FunctionalService.java:67)
    ... 7 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out (Connection timed out)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java:666)
    at sun.security.ssl.BaseSSLSocketImpl.connect(BaseSSLSocketImpl.java:173)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:463)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:558)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(HttpsClient.java:264)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:367)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:191)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1156)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:1050)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:177)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1564)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1492)
    at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:480)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:347)
    at org.jgroups.protocols.S3_PING$AWSAuthConnection.checkBucketExists(S3_PING.java:487)
    at org.jgroups.protocols.S3_PING.init(S3_PING.java:100)
    at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.initProtocolStack(ProtocolStack.java:840)
    at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.init(ProtocolStack.java:830)
    at org.jgroups.JChannel.<init>(JChannel.java:200)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.JChannelFactory.createChannel(JChannelFactory.java:116)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ChannelServiceConfigurator.get(ChannelServiceConfigurator.java:96)
    ... 9 more