How to open a web server port on EC2 instance

Question

I'm running a CherryPy web server at 0.0.0.0:8787 on an EC2 instance. I can connect to the web server via local wget on the EC2 machine, but I can't reach the instance from my own remote machine (I connect to EC2 via ssh). Do I need to open up port 8787 to access the web server remotely? If so, how can this be done? Also, can I use the public IP of the EC2 instance for this? Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

Follow these steps to do this: Open "Network & Security" -- Security Group settings are on the left-hand navigation Find the security group connected to your instance Choose “inbound rules” Type the port number (in your case 8787) in “port range” then click “Add Rule” Use the drop-down and add HTTP (port 80) And it is done.