kwasi
New Contributor II

@Retired_mod  Thanks for the reply.
• I dont seem to have a problem with connection, running 

%sh nc -zv xxx.aws.confluent.cloud 9092 results in 
Connection to xxx.aws.confluent.cloud (xx.xx.xxx.xx) 9092 port [tcp/*] succeeded!

But the timeout happens when I try to actually retrieve data using spark, as shown in the sample code above.
i.e after, is there anything else that I am overlooking?
display(inputDF)