I followed these steps and I believe I have an ethereum network running successfully: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/blockchain-templates/latest/developerguide/blockchain-templates-getting-started.html
After starting the network, I have a bastion host to create a SSH tunnel, and I added the FoxyProxy extension to Chrome, and then I am able to connect to the explorer URL and stats URL, shown below.
Here are some general questions I am struggling with:
The explorer URL shows blocks, but the stats URL looks empty, why is that?
There is a EthJsonRPCURL with the description "Use this URL to access the Geth JSON RPC of your Ethereum Clients, or input it into Metamask" and I am trying to use that to deploy a smart contract. If I want to do this from Visual Studio, how would I do it? When I try, I get a timeout error. To connect to the other URL's I am using the proxy through the browser, but what would I do in Visual Studio to connect to the network using the json rpc URL to deploy a smart contract?