In the previous post we setup an EC2 instance and tried to connect it using SSH:
My host has a public address, the subnet has a gateway that allows connection to internet, so ideally it should have worked. However there is additional setting with EC2 - security groups
The current security group is
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For my SSH to work I need to define a security group inbound rule.
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This is basically allowing my laptop to connect to my ec2 host using the security key (my pem file).
ssh -i ~/Desktop/test-burner-pair.pem ec2-54-237-224-254.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ssh: connect to host ec2-54-237-224-254.compute-1.amazonaws.com port 22:
Operation timed out
A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control incoming
and outgoing traffic. Inbound rules control the incoming traffic to your instance,
and outbound rules control the outgoing traffic from your instance.
This is basically allowing my laptop to connect to my ec2 host using the security key (my pem file).