Running EC2 instance suddenly refuses SSH connection

Question

I\'ve set up the EC2 instance couple days ago and even last night I was able to SSH to it with no problems. Today morning, I can\'t ssh to it. Port 22 is already open in the

Answer 1

Looks like sshd might have stopped for some reason. Is the instance EBS backed? if thats the case, try shutting it down and starting it back up. That should solve the problem.

Also, are you able to ssh from AWS web console? They have a java plugin there to ssh into the instance.