Possible reasons for timeout when trying to access EC2 instance

Question

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, an

Answer 1

If you've just created a new instance and can't connect to it, I was able to solve the issue by terminating that one and creating a new one. Of course this will only work if it's a new instance and you haven't done any more work on it.