{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/boto/boto/issues/3347","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/boto/boto/issues/3347/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/boto/boto/issues/3347/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/boto/boto/issues/3347/events","html_url":"https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/3347","id":107847532,"number":3347,"title":"How to specify a timeout for only DynamoDB connections?","user":{"login":"djsmith42","id":921044,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/921044?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42","html_url":"https://github.com/djsmith42","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/djsmith42/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-09-23T04:28:27Z","updated_at":"2015-09-23T04:28:27Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am aware of the `http_socket_timeout` setting in `boto.cfg`, but what if I want to specify a timeout that only applies to my DynamoDB connections, e.g., by passing `timeout=5.0` to `boto.dynamodb2.connect_to_region()`.\r\n\r\nThis doesn't seem to be possible now, and based on my reading of the code, it won't pass along a timeout value to the underlying connection object.\r\n\r\nAm I missing something?"}}