How to access Kibana from Amazon elasticsearch service?

Question

I created Amazon elasticsearch service and populated data into it using logstash, which has been installed on an EC2 instance. On the Amazon elasticservice console page, the

Answer 1

You may need to have IP-based policy and allow access to your domain from specific IP (Kibana's).

Other option (aside from changing access policy to be completely open) would be signing requests - IIRC this helped a friend of mine with similar message.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/es-managedomains.html#es-managedomains-signing-service-requests

See also "Connecting a Local Kibana Server to Amazon Elasticsearch Service" on the same page.