Changing your EC2 Security Group to allow HTTP traffic

Step 1: Go to Instances on the left panel of your AWS EC2 Console and click on Instances. Then click on the blue text under the Security Groups column. It may either be named 'default' or 'launch-wizard-1'. This brings up the Security Group Page.

Step 2A: Changing the Security Group Inbound Rules. Right click on the security group shown below.

Step 2B: Click on Edit Inbound Rules

Step 2C: Change the Rules to as shown below.

Type - All Traffic (Protocol will be automatically set to All and Port Range to 0-65535)

Source - Custom which should autofill the box the right to, 0.0.0.0/0 (this indicates we are accepting traffic from all IPs).

Click Save and that's it, your Security Group settings are now set.