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juminoz
juminoz

Reputation: 3218

Cannot Make Outbound Calls from Amazon EC2 VPC

I just started a new instance and deployed a very simple Java app to try to connect to MongoDB Atlas and the app is not able to connect. The same app is working fine locally. This is a general purpose instance in a VPC and not a classic. Is there a configuration to enable outbound calls? I checked the routing table and there is no rules to block any outbound calls. The attached image also show public IP, but I can't actually ping the server, but I can connect through ssh.

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I have also tried assigning Elastic IP to an instance and that didn't work either.

Elastic IP Assigned to Instance

Update:

It turned out the issue was with MongoDB for this case. Based on what I saw online, it let me to thing this was an issue with Amazon VPC, but it was actually an issue with the whitelist on Mongo DB Atlas. I didn't realize that was the case since connection from my local was working even though it's not supposed to.

You DO NOT need a NAT server to send an outbound call.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1145

Answers (2)

Jay Gordon
Jay Gordon

Reputation: 367

MongoDB Atlas actually now has VPC peering which will no longer require you to whitelist 0.0.0.0/0

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/introducing-vpc-peering-for-mongodb-atlas

Upvotes: 1

Marc Young
Marc Young

Reputation: 4012

Make sure your ACL's for that subnet allow 0.0.0.0/0

Make sure you can ping www.google.com from within the instance

Check your subnet routes and ensure that it has a route for 0.0.0.0/0 to the internet gateway.

Upvotes: 0

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