Connect to an amazon ec2 instance with ssh - timeout

Question

every time i try to connect to my amazon instance my ssh client (Putty) expires. I disabled all the firewalls I could find (Router, windows built-in) and enabled ssh in the security groups. Putty event log: 2012-01-06 22:04:15 Hosting look "ec2-50-xx-222.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com" 2012-01-06 22:04:15 Connect to port 50.xx222 22 2012-01-06 22:04:36 Failed to connect to 50.xx222: Network error: connection timeout 2012-01-06 22:04:36 Network error: connection timeout

What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

Have you installed the key in EC2?

blog post on ec2 keys etc.

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