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I created an AWS Windows Server 2016 instance and also allocated an elastic IP address to it. Server's running fine and I can RDP into it.

I also installed IIS on it and ensured that it is running. Just to be sure, I explicitly enabled ports 80 and 443 on the Windows Firewall.

I added a default page ("index.html") to the default website, and when I visited the page using IE on the server with the address localhost, the page displayed fine. But when I am trying to access the same page using the elastic IP address, it is showing a timeout error (ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT).

I also made sure that I added outbound exception rules to the AWS security groups as in the image below.

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But still the same error.

I just cannot figure out where I am going wrong.

Najeeb
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    The outbound rule isn't what you need. What do the inbound rules look like? – joeqwerty Jul 25 '18 at 12:38
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    @joeqwerty, I got what you were getting at. I added exceptions to both, ports 80 and 443 in the inbound rules, and now it's serving perfectly. Thanks so much (y) – Najeeb Jul 25 '18 at 13:23

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Adding the inbound rules to All Traffic (0.0.0.0/0) can make it work in the local system using the public IP address

Vigneshwar S
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