Port 22 connection timed out

Part 1 (2017)
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m trying to get onto my P2.xlarge instance using below
ssh -i /home/akatti/.ssh/aws-key-fast-ai.pem ubuntu@ec2-52-25-240-66.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

Im getting message
OpenSSH_7.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017
debug1: Connecting to ec2-52-25-240-66.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [52.25.240.66] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 52.25.240.66 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host ec2-52-25-240-66.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com port 22: Connection timed out

Unable to get started. Please help

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Are you absolutely sure that’s the name of your AWS instance? The connection time out usually means:
0) Your instance is not actually running (you may have forgotten to start it up again via the AWS console);

  1. The SSH daemon is not running on the instance you’re trying to reach;
  2. If the SSH daemon is running, then your firewall settings may have been modified to block port TCP22.

You can check #0 above by logging into your Amazon Web Services (AWS) console, right clicking on the machine and trying to SSH via the built-in Java SSH browser client. Make sure not to use Chrome - a warning will pop up from Amazon if you try to do so.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks the public DNS showing up was different than the one it asked me to SSH in through. Used the latest IP and was able to log in

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Hello,
I’m having a similar issue, but the error message is slightly different.

When I ssh into my running AWS P2Xlarge instance (I checked it is running), using :

ssh -i /home/MYUSERNAME/.ssh/aws-key-fast-ai.pem ubuntu@ec2-52-38-124-131.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

I get the following message:

connection closed by 52.38.124.131 port 22

Any ideas what this might mean and how to fix it?

Also I previously installed -and was able to run- a t2 instance in AWS, so I am not sure what the problem might be with the P2 instance now.

Thanks

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It turns out I needed to terminate my instance and re-create it.
I also deleted a few VPCs that had been created by previous attempts and it all works now

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