[chef] remote_file s3 random 403

Hello Chefs

I’ve been encountering issues on long chef runs with in a vagrant - 
chef-client to server testing environment.
When I issue a full run after a while the remote_file requests to AWS S3 will 
file with a 403 response. 

================================================================================
Error executing action `create` on resource 
'cookbook_file[/tmp/chef/source/install_packageXYZ]'
================================================================================


Net::HTTPServerException
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403 "Forbidden"


From what I can gather is that this possibly due to clock skew during the run 
as AWS expects timestamps within a tolerance of 15 minutes. The next converge 
will download the file fine, it’s not the same file that continuously fails. 

This issue is documented in the AWS FAQ
http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1109#04

Has anyone else encountered this issue before? Is there a more appropriate 
resource with a retry option? 


Appreciate your time,

Damien.