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I have a medium EC2 instance that runs Windows 2008 R2. I have installed the web role in order to run IIS on it. I am able to see the default website locally but not from the internet using the Public DNS. I get the message "Cannot connect to Website"

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The first thing you need to do is assign an elastic IP address to your instance.

Next, you need to make sure that the security group assigned to this instance has whatever port is added for inbound connections for whatever port you have created the website on(80, 443, etc.).

You also want to make sure that this port is open on your Windows firewall.

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The elastic IP is not a requirement. You can use the default IP address given. – Matt Houser Sep 19 '12 at 16:26
Which default IP? – boburob Sep 19 '12 at 16:31
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By default, every EC2 instance is given a Public DNS name such as ec2-xx-xxx-xx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com. You can access your EC2 instance by putting that DNS name into your web browser. You can also use the IP address that the DNS name resolves to. Beware, this DNS name and IP address will change if you stop and restart your EC2 instance. – Matt Houser Sep 19 '12 at 17:09
@MattHouser I never knew this! Thanks for saving me some money! – boburob Sep 20 '12 at 7:27

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