# Discourse instance unreachable on AWS **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [December 31, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-instance-unreachable-on-aws/55006 "2016-12-31T16:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![auryn\_macmillan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/auryn_macmillan/32/56633_2.png) [@auryn\_macmillan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/auryn_macmillan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-instance-unreachable-on-aws/55006/6 "2016-12-31T20:56:45Z")
> I can help if you provide more info. AWS is my bread and butter. 🙂 That would be very much appreciated. > Do you mean that you cannot view the EC2 instance? I mean if I try to browse to the instance using the IP address, the connection is refused. > Can you SSH in? Yes, I can SSH in without issue. > Is your instance behind an Elastic Load Balancer? The instance is not behind an elastic load balancer. Although I did connect an elastic IP. > Verify your security group rules on the EC2 instance, then try telnet 443 from your PC. The rules on the EC2’s security group match what @JagWaugh posted above, and telnet returns: ``` Trying 35.166.67.172... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused ``` --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-instance-unreachable-on-aws/55006)._