Using SSH with VPN = Timeout

[Flauschi]

If im using SSH Connection on my Amazon Kali Server and starting Openvpn connection Im timing out. I already read that i need to add Rules for that but i dont understand how to do it.
All Ips are fictional.
Here's my "ifconfig":

eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 9001
inet 172.31.36.164 netmask 255.255.240.0 broadcast 172.31.47.255
inet6 fe80::45b:cdff:fea7:e8e9 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 06:5b:cd:a7:e8:e9 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 613 bytes 69021 (67.4 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 589 bytes 119657 (116.8 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
And my "route":

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 172.31.32.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
172.31.32.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

Can you help me to solve this Problem?