Error in the Kinesis connector for reading data on AWS

[alokika-dash]

We recently had an issue when jobs got killed because of the following error in the Kinesis connector for reading data on AWS:
Please help us understand the cause and a possible solution that could fix this. Thank you in advance.

For versioning we use the following:

"com.qubole.spark" %% "spark-sql-kinesis" % "1.1.4_spark-2.4"

21/01/07 20:41:45 ERROR MicroBatchExecution: Query [id = 64157e0f-88df-4063-a24f-a1f424d98626, runId = 7e45f961-17a7-4008-aaa3-4804019645d8] terminated with error java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error while Describe Streams at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.KinesisReader.org$apache$spark$sql$kinesis$KinesisReader$$retryOrTimeout(KinesisReader.scala:256) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.KinesisReader$$anonfun$5.apply(KinesisReader.scala:182) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.KinesisReader$$anonfun$5.apply(KinesisReader.scala:182) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.KinesisReader.runUninterruptibly(KinesisReader.scala:216) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.KinesisReader.describeKinesisStream(KinesisReader.scala:181) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.KinesisReader.getShards(KinesisReader.scala:88) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.KinesisSource.getOffset(KinesisSource.scala:169) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch$1$$anonfun$5$$anonfun$apply$9.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:345) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch$1$$anonfun$5$$anonfun$apply$9.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:345) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.ProgressReporter$class.reportTimeTaken(ProgressReporter.scala:351) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamExecution.reportTimeTaken(StreamExecution.scala:58) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch$1$$anonfun$5.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:344) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch$1$$anonfun$5.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:341) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:48) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:104) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch$1.apply$mcZ$sp(MicroBatchExecution.scala:341) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch$1.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:337) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch$1.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:337) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution.withProgressLocked(MicroBatchExecution.scala:557) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution.org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$MicroBatchExecution$$constructNextBatch(MicroBatchExecution.scala:337) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1$$anonfun$apply$mcZ$sp$1.apply$mcV$sp(MicroBatchExecution.scala:183) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1$$anonfun$apply$mcZ$sp$1.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:166) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1$$anonfun$apply$mcZ$sp$1.apply(MicroBatchExecution.scala:166) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.ProgressReporter$class.reportTimeTaken(ProgressReporter.scala:351) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamExecution.reportTimeTaken(StreamExecution.scala:58) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution$$anonfun$runActivatedStream$1.apply$mcZ$sp(MicroBatchExecution.scala:166) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.ProcessingTimeExecutor.execute(TriggerExecutor.scala:56) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.MicroBatchExecution.runActivatedStream(MicroBatchExecution.scala:160) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamExecution.org$apache$spark$sql$execution$streaming$StreamExecution$$runStream(StreamExecution.scala:281) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.StreamExecution$$anon$1.run(StreamExecution.scala:193) Caused by: org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.SdkClientException: Unable to execute HTTP request: Connect to kinesis.us-west-2.amazonaws.com:443 [kinesis.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/34.223.45.17] failed: connect timed out at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.handleRetryableException(AmazonHttpClient.java:1114) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.executeHelper(AmazonHttpClient.java:1064) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.doExecute(AmazonHttpClient.java:743) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.executeWithTimer(AmazonHttpClient.java:717) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:699) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.access$500(AmazonHttpClient.java:667) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutionBuilderImpl.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:649) at org.apache.spark.sql.kinesis.shaded.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:513)
Originally posted by @alokika-dash in #50 (comment)