Cannot ping AWS EC2 instance

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santosh s picture santosh s · Feb 24, 2014 · Viewed 251.6k times · Source

I have an EC2 instance running in AWS. When I try to ping from my local box it is not available.

How can I make the instance pingable?

Answer

Rakib picture Rakib · May 30, 2015

Add a new EC2 security group inbound rule:

  • Type: Custom ICMP rule
  • Protocol: Echo Request
  • Port: N/A
  • Source: your choice (I would select Anywhere to be able to ping from any machine)

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