How to enable ICMP ping requests on EC2 instances. No more “Request Timed Out”




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 on the “Inbound” tab.


Create a new rule: Custom ICMP rule
Type: Echo request
Source: 0.0.0.0/0


0.0.0.0 will allow everyone to ping your server. You can specify your own addresses if you want.


That’s it.







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