How to access/ping a server located on AWS?

Question

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

Answer 1

Updated for 2014 - the current Amazon UI no longer uses numbers for ICMP types, so the existing answer doesn't work anymore.

In your security group:

• Click the inbound tab
• Create a custom ICMP rule
• Select echo request
• Use range 0.0.0.0/0 for everyone or lock it down to specific IPs
• Apply the changes

and you'll be able to ping.