I currently have a Virtual Machine (VM) hosted on Azure that has python code that connects to a SFTP site to do things. This process has been running for several years with no issue up until 5 days ago. Now it gets a WinError 10060 error. After spending a couple of days tracking this down I have concluded that it is related to the VM (I can run this code from my local machine with no issue whatsoever). I just cant figure out how to get around it. This is the list of things Ive tried: