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I've been able to use the browser-based SSH client without any issues until today. Now, I'm getting the following error each time I try to connect. I've tried restarting, stopping/starting, and removing/adding back the static IP.

CONNECTION ERROR An error occurred and we were unable to connect or stay connected to your instance. If this instance has just started up, try again in a minute or two.

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  • Are you using DHCP on the client side that might have changed the address of your computer? You might need to update the address allowed to connect to SSH through the security group. – Carlo Miguel Cruz Jul 31 '17 at 1:47
  • No, not using DHCP or anything different. It's the same case for multiple computers I've tried. For Lightsail, there's no configuration like that; it just works out of the box when you launch the browser-based client while logged in. – user3071284 Jul 31 '17 at 12:45
  • "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful" This question shows the research done and is useful to anyone else who has this issue. – user3071284 Jul 31 '17 at 12:46
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The issue was I enabled the ufw firewall on Ubuntu and closed my SSH session. Naturally, I was unable to SSH back in on port 22 since only ports 80 and 443 were allowed at that point.

For Lightsail, I don't think there's a way around it, unless a snapshot from one instance can be loaded onto another instance.

For AWS, you can unmount and put the volume on a new instance: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=112384

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    I locked myself out the same way. I created the snapshot, created a new instance from that snapshot but ran with (sudo ufw allow ssh) in launch script which fixed the issue – SenG Oct 30 '18 at 14:18
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Found a solution from the AWS forums that encountered the same problem.

There seems to be an issue that happens with Lightsail setups wherein the web-based SSH service stops working properly for some reason. The advise was to create a snapshot of the Lightsail instance to preserve the current data then create a new instance that installs an updated SSH server using user-data similar to the following:

#!/bin/bash sudo apt-get remove openssh-client openssh-server sudo apt-get install openssh-client openssh-server

It says that web-based SSH might not be possible after since they seem to be using a special SSH configuration for it. You will need to SSH directly to the server using a SSH client.

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  • Does Lightsail allow applying a snapshot from one instance to another instance? – user3071284 Jul 31 '17 at 17:57

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