Ping an EC2 instance from the internet

This is useful to check that your EC2 instance is alive and connected to internet.

Pre-requisites

• Your EC2 instance muste have a public IP address (see Reserve and assign a static IP for an existing EC2 instance)
• Get your EC2 public IP address : -> EC2 Dashboard -> Instances -> read the public IP on your instance line.
• Ping must be allowed (see Open port 22 for ssh connection on an EC2 instance and add All ICMP - IPv4 instead, leaving all default values, open it to any source)

Step by step

• Open Windows PowerShell
• enter : ping myIP
• exit with Ctrl+C if necessary