Amazon AWS EC2, Allow inbound http Request

Question

I have deployed a nodejs application in AWS EC2 instance. It has API gateway with '/api/companies' endpoint. After starting my server I am able to cURL from the instance terminal and it returns the result correctly. But I am not able to make the request from my browser to the EC2 instance. I am not sure exactly how to modify the inbound rules to make this work

Answer 1

You might want to check out the Security Group Rules documentation, but the gist is:

1. Create a new Security Group in your VPC for your EC2 instance
2. In the Inbound rules, create a new rule
3. Set the Source to your IP address. (Optional, if you want to allow access from any IP address, enter 0.0.0.0/0 in the Source)
4. Set the Protocol to tcp, and set the Port to 80 or 443 depending on what your application uses

Answer 2

• Edit your existing security group or add a new security group
• Select the VPC the instance is running in. The attached image shows No VPC, but you have to select your VPC
• For Source, you can choose My IP if you want to allow inbound traffic from your IP only or from Anywhere in the world