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I cannot SSH into my instance – Operation timed out. What could be the reasons why, and what can I do to resolve it? Rebooting normally takes a long time to take effect, and might just makes things worst
UPDATE: It is not about permissions – i can log in normally just fine. I suspect it might be because of memory issues
Did you set an appropriate security group for the instance? I.e. one that allows access from your network to port 22 on the instance. (By default all traffic is disallowed.)
Update: Ok, not a security group issue. But does the problem persist if you launch up another instance from the same AMI and try to access that? Maybe this particular EC2 instance just randomly failed somehow – it is only matter of time that something like that happens. (Recommended reading: Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices (PDF), a paper by Jinesh Varia who is a web services evangelist at Amazon. See especially the section titled “Design for failure and nothing will fail”.)