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###Issues when playing around with AWS
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- The problem: **aws cli (used for aws ec2 describe-tags) hangs in eu-west-2** in all AZs on new instances I created, using a target group which permitted all outbound connections and inbound https, http and ssh connections. I tried permitting everything but that didn’t work. When I attached (at Axel’s suggestion) the Java Application with Reverse Proxy security group, it worked but — even if I duplicated this security group, and applied that copy instead — it still didn’t work.
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Curl issue solution: it turns out that the network interface only permits certain outbound and inbounds from certain target groups.
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-The path to the solution: On my instance in eu-west-2a, I ran aws – debug ec2 describe-tags (you may need to do aws configure). This is much akin to verbose mode of other unix commands. I noticed it hang on a request to ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com. If you do `dig -t any ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com` you see 3 ip addresses, which — as you will see later — are IPs in each of the eu-west-2 availability zones. When I ran curl -v ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com (the v flag is verbose), one of the IPs from dig was used (namely the one in eu-west-2a, where the instance resides) and it hangs. I then went to endpoints for the VPC and noticed a service for the service `com.amazonaws.eu-west-2.ec2`. It had the default security group, which turned out to only allow inbound rules from the default or Java Application with Reverse Proxy target group.
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+The path to the solution: On my instance in eu-west-2a, I ran aws --debug ec2 describe-tags (you may need to do aws configure first). This is much akin to verbose mode of other unix commands. I noticed it hang on a request to ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com. If you do `dig -t any ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com` you see 3 ip addresses, which — as you will see later — are IPs in each of the eu-west-2 availability zones. When I ran curl -v ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com (the v flag is verbose), one of the IPs from dig was used (namely the one in eu-west-2a, where the instance resides) and it hangs. I then went to endpoints for the VPC and noticed a service for the service `com.amazonaws.eu-west-2.ec2`. It had the default security group, which turned out to only allow inbound rules from the default or Java Application with Reverse Proxy target group.
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+- Problem: A load balancer's target group health checks fail. I was told the checks failed with 403 errors.
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+Solution: This was occurring because the website didn't have any content in the /var/www/html. Whilst a site was still served (namely the Apache test page) it does throw a 403 error. If you fill the directory with and index.html the test then passes and a 200 code is returned
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