<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 3, 2015, at 09:24, Aaron Howard <<a href="mailto:archanoid@gmail.com" class="">archanoid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">When you created the instance did you generate a key pair? Did you download the private key? When you say into an ec2 instance you have to use the private key you set the instance up with. Check that.</p></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="">Okay, first let me say this: argh, Amazon?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually, first I should say thanks to COLUG [lurker] Jason Alexander who helped me sort it out.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It turned out that the problem wasn't in the instance itself or the security group, but rather a misconfiguration in the VPC[1]. The VPC was missing its gateway route[2]. No idea why or how it got that way - I've never seen the VPC configuration screen before. All 4 VPCs appear to be configured this way. After so much puttering with the security groups, it almost had to be something with the VPC or Subnet ID, but I had no idea there were any accessible VPC settings.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the clues was that when you looked at the system's logs, NTP was complaining - suggesting that there was an overall issue with the host's traffic. It started to really feel like a routing table issue, and then Jason found the misconfigured VPC settings. As soon as I added the correct route[2, red arrow], things started working immediately.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks Jason!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/" class="">https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/</a></div><div class="">[2] <a href="http://imgur.com/4B0pSZK" class="">http://imgur.com/4B0pSZK</a></div></div><br class=""><div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>