WCF service in Windows service on Amazon EC2 - amazon-web-services

I'm fairly new to EC2, hopefully someone can point me into the correct direction. I have a WCF Service hosted in Windows Service and would like to run this on EC2. I set up an EC2 account with Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server Express. I put my service out there and ran it, I'm able to test and connect to it from the browser with the private IP on the VM, but when I try to connect to the service from my computer with the Public IP, I'm not able to do so.
Am I missing some important configuration or am I totally off? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm testing this with port 8080 and added that to the Permission Groups. I also tried to assigned an elastic IP to the instance. Thanks in advance.

EC2 provides security groups, which are essentially a firewall external to the machine. The default security group will allow SSH and RDP connections. If you want requests for port 8080 to be received by the VM, update the security group settings for the VM. You can do this interactively from the Amazon Management Console.
You also need to configure the firewall running in the windows VM, but it appears you did this when you added the service to the 'Permission Groups'.

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Can't reach to an AWS EC2 instance website

I just launched a instance on AWS and I'm trying to open the website. So I copy the Public IPv4 address and paste it on my page. But it always returns This site can’t be reached 35.78.183.239 took too long to respond.
I've changed my firewall setting to access google chrome and set security groups HTTP, HTTPS. I can't figure out where the problem is. Any suggestions?
You didn't specify what webserver or AMI is on your EC2 instance.
You need to setup an AMI or manually install and setup a webserver for anything to show, otherwise the EC2 instance, while reachable, will not respond.
Make sure that ssh access is enabled and try ssh into the machine. If you can successfully login, then you know the instance is reachable and the problem is with your webserver software. This will help you debug.
What port is your application running on? When you enable HTTP and HTTPS it only allows ports 80 and 443 on the security group. This won't help if your application runs on a different port, so you'll need to add that to your security group to allow inbound traffic.

How connect a client to a remote Windows Server 2019 AWS EC2

We have a very difficult problem here, we have a Windows Server 2019 Base x64 on Amazon EC2, connected through RDP and setup-ed forest and activated AD DS , also activated DNS. But whenever we try to connect we are not allowed to.
We have opened all the relevant ports on inbound traffic rules.
We have added users.
We have tried searching internet and various tutorials.
In Server Manager=:
Added the public ipv4 address to our ipv4 settings of the adapter.
Went to the computer setting in computer domain entered the domain but no fun.
Disabled the firewall in server manager.
We want to connect our clients on different network to connect to the server hosted else-where on AWS.
We are really new into this can some one guide through this?
Please make sure there is network connectivity between your client and you DC which is set up on EC-2 Instance.
[1] In case your clients are on AWS (meaning different EC-2 Instances), and in a different network, you need to create VPC peering or use Transit Gateway, so that it has proper network connectivity.
[2] In case your clients are not on AWS, and in an On-prem Environment, you need to have a VPN connection between your client and your DC.
So in Summary, you need to have network connectivity between your client and DC so that clients can join your Domain.
What do you mean whenever we try to connect we are not allowed to?
What are you trying to connect to, the Windows EC2 instance?
Are you saying that the instance is joined to AWS Directory Service domain but you can't connect to the instance using one of the users in your AWS directory?
Edit: This should have been a comment but couldn't post comments at the time of answering.

How to open outside access to ElasticSearch server hosted on Windows EC2 instance?

I didn't find such guide or articles how to do it for ElasticSearch hosted on Windows server.
I have the EC2 amazon windows instance which running ElasticSearch server on port 9200, but I can't achieve it by _ec2_ip_adress:9200 outside the server.
I completely sure that all TCP ports are opened in amazon security group rules, I've turned off the firewall on the server as well.
So that is the problem in ElasticSearch configs.
Can someone help me with that?
Well but you know that then any body would be able to delete/create stuff in your index until you have shield.
If you really want to open it, also make sure that in windows firewall you opened port 9200.
So what i would do i would probably restrict in firewall on in Amazon access to this port for specific IPs (Actually in my project i am doing that :) )
There is one more thing to check on which IP is runned as soon as i remember ES will run on private IP. Look to network.host default is __local__. Try network.host: 0.0.0.0

What Do I Need To Do To Enable My EC2 Windows Instance As a Web Server?

I'm not a hardware guys, so I'm probably missing something simple, but I did the following:
Created a Windows VM.
Activated the web server role/IIS features (I can successfully serve a page via localhost when remote desktopped in).
Made sure outgoing port 80 wasn't blocked in Windows firewall.
Created a load balancer that pointed to the instance (to make enablement of SSL easier).
I then tried pulling up both the load balancer public DNS and the VM'w and neither of them pull up any web page. The Windows VM instance reports that it's running, but the load balancer reports that the VM is OutOfService trying to forward port 80.
What do I need to do to be able to serve my web site?
Open port 80 on the AWS security group assigned to your EC2 instance.
Open inbound access to port RDP in your security group.
This will make you to access the Windows server of your ec2-instance.
Edit the Security Group assigned to your EC2 instance and add a rule to allow port 80 in Inbound and outbount rules.

Accessing amazon ec2 windows instance web server from public ip

I am new to amazon web services and i want to access amazon windows instance from public-ip. I have created ec2 instance with windows server r2 2012 and add a load balancer to listen HTTP requests and also add a elastic ip to that instacne. It also has been assigned to a security group which has all-tcp, all-udp, http and HTTPS from anywhere(0.0.0.0). There is a carbon web server started as a windows service inside with (http://localhost:9443/). what i want is to access it from my web browser. i tried it with this public ip http://:9443/ but it is not accessible from browser. connection timed out,
Allowing All Traffic in EC2 Instance is not recommended.
I Suggest You Allow Specific Ports Only According to your Application Needs.
I think You have not allowed the Windows Firewall to allow traffic , Turning it off is not recommended.
Try to Create a Rule in Firewall that will allow you to Bypass the Port in the Windows Firewall.
Refer: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753558.aspx