Running ssh on Amazon EC2 instance on port other than 22

Question

I am not able to access Amazon EC2 instance via ssh as i am behind a firewall. So, i thought of running ssh on port other than 22, like 80 or 443.

I tried starting A

Answer 1

The amazon firewall blocks all ports other than 22. You first have to enable port 80/443/whatever.

HOWTO: Go to "security groups" -> click on the group you chose for your instance, then on the "Inbound" tab.

There you can add your ports.

EDIT: If by chance you also installed apache or some other webserver, port 80 will be used and cannot be used by sshd. I do not know which operating system is installed on your server, but maybe some webserver is already included?

EDIT 2: As per the last comment, it seems nowadays all ports are blocked by default. So you will have to open port 22 if you need it. Wasn't the case eight years ago, but configurations change ;)