How to access/ping a server located on AWS?

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Alex picture Alex · Sep 23, 2009 · Viewed 63.4k times · Source

With what address should a server located on AWS be accessed?

I've created an AWS instance and installed a web server on it. However the server is not reachable via any of the:

  1. ec2-174-129-24-92.compute-1.amazonaws.com
  2. the IP address from instance's ifconfig
  3. an elastic IP address I've created on the AWS dashboard and associated with the instance

Surprisingly, ssh with [email protected] works fine.

What might be the problem and how to bind an address to the instance?

Answer

nowthatsamatt picture nowthatsamatt · Sep 19, 2010

In your security group open -1 to -1 on ICMP for range 0.0.0.0/0 and you'll be able to ping.

See my screenshot for a better view:

AWS Console Image

Image posted by @emostar below

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