Cannot Ping Aws Ec2 Instance

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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? 1 27 Answers Add a New...

Cannot Ping Aws Ec2 Instance

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?

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27 Answers

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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A few years late but hopefully this will help someone else...

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1 - First make sure the EC2 instance has a public IP.

If has a Public DNS or Public IP address (circled below) then you should be good. This will be the address you ping.

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