Posted by Suhas on November 6, 2011 ·
I, recently, switched to the EC2 virtual instance. I wanted to check if the website is online. As usual I used the “ping” command. I thought my server was down (kinda freaked out) but the website on the browser was working fine.
All I needed to do was to enable the ICMP requests:
1) Log into AWS account.
2) Click on “Security Groups”. Choose the required security group.
3) Click [...]