Title: Plugin stopped working: cURL error 28
Last modified: May 22, 2017

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# Plugin stopped working: cURL error 28

 *  Resolved [Jason Funk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonlfunk/)
 * (@jasonlfunk)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-curl-error-28/)
 * This plugin was working great until I updated to the newest version and it stopped
   working. (We also launched a new version of the site, though, on the same server.)
   If I go to the settings page I see this:
 * `There was an error attempting to check the permissions of the bucket ******:
   Error retrieving credentials from the instance profile metadata server. (cURL
   error 28: Connection timed out after 1001 milliseconds (see http://curl.haxx.
   se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html))`
 * If I click on the ‘change’ link next to the bucket, I see this error:
 * `Error fetching buckets — Missing required client configuration options: region:(
   string) A "region" configuration value is required for the "s3" service (e.g.,"
   us-west-2"). A list of available public regions and endpoints can be found at
   http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html.`
 * Any ideas on how to fix it?

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 *  Thread Starter [Jason Funk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonlfunk/)
 * (@jasonlfunk)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-curl-error-28/#post-9154676)
 * I figured out the issue. Another plugin (seriously-simple-podcasting) updated
   their version of aws sdk and was replacing the one used by your library… which
   broke it.

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