amazon web services: Can't browse to AWS Ubuntu EC2 instance

mardi 25 août 2015

When I invoke: 'curl http://ift.tt/1Uc2c0u' from an ssh shell into an Ubuntu EC2 instance, it returns:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <h1>Ubuntu EC2 instance</h1>
  </body>
</html>

which is expected. It's the contents of index.html in /var/www/html.

When I invoke that curl command from outside of EC2 instance, it hangs and times out with "Couldn't connect to host".

The Inbound rules for the security group has the http rule enabled: Type Protocol Port Range Source HTTP TCP 80 0.0.0.0/0

Does something else need to be enabled to browse to this EC2 instance?

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