debug.log

$ TF_LOG=DEBUG AWS_PROFILE=dev terraform remote config -backend=s3 -backend-config=bucket=mybucket -backend-config=key=global/vpc_mgmt.tfstate -backend-config=region=us-east-1
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [INFO] Terraform version: 0.8.0  142dd256ad48ab17b6019fe9cd18712167fcf4b4
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [INFO] CLI args: []string{"/usr/local/bin/terraform", "remote", "config", "-backend=s3", "-backend-config=bucket=mybucket", "-backend-config=key=global/vpc_mgmt.tfstate", "-backend-config=region=us-east-1"}
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [DEBUG] Detected home directory from env var: /Users/martinm8
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [DEBUG] Detected home directory from env var: /Users/martinm8
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [DEBUG] Attempting to open CLI config file: /Users/martinm8/.terraformrc
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [DEBUG] File doesn't exist, but doesn't need to. Ignoring.
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [DEBUG] Detected home directory from env var: /Users/martinm8
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [WARN] Ignoring AWS metadata API endpoint at default location as it doesn't return any instance-id
Remote configuration updated
2016/12/14 00:10:44 [WARN] Ignoring AWS metadata API endpoint at default location as it doesn't return any instance-id
2016/12/14 00:10:54 [ERR] Checkpoint error: Get https://checkpoint-api.hashicorp.com/v1/check/terraform?arch=amd64&os=darwin&signature=2fbaaa11-2195-c8b8-5730-ed68c397afc2&version=0.8.0: net/http: TLS handshake timeout
2016/12/14 00:11:25 [DEBUG] plugin: waiting for all plugin processes to complete...
Error while performing the initial pull. The error message is shown
below. Note that remote state was properly configured, so you don't
need to reconfigure. You can now use `push` and `pull` directly.

Error reloading remote state: RequestError: send request failed
caused by: Get https://s3.amazonaws.com/mybucket/global/vpc_mgmt.tfstate: net/http: TLS handshake timeout