I'm getting this error once in a while when making a putObject call.

What is the root cause of the error and what's the best way to avoid it?
According to API response looks like this error is non-retryable. Is there a way to configure aws-sdk to make a retry when this type of error happens?

example response:
{"message":"Your socket connection to the server was not read from or written to within the timeout period. Idle connections will be closed.","code":"RequestTimeout","time":"2014-05-21T00:50:25.709Z","statusCode":400,"retryable":false,"_willRetry":false}