Ec2 connect issues

Hello.

Have you met all the EC2 Instance Connect prerequisites listed in the document below?
The following document describes items that you should check in addition to security group rules.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-connect-prerequisites.html

you have to ssh using the downloaded .pem credential, throw the -i flag with ssh, followed by that which is specified ssh -i path/to/certificate.pem name@serverhost

Hi Jai,

Follow this post: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/ec2-instance-connect-troubleshooting

It will help you find where your issue is.

2 key points usually

1. make sure of the VPC in which this instance is started
2. make sure that the ssh rule are placed in the sec group used by VPC

I see often folks a) having their instance in a different VPC than the one they tought or b) defining the ssh rules in a sec group that is not the one for their VPC

Best,

Didier