Keeps "SSH timeout" error in our AWS instance- how do i diagnose?

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Published on 2010-07-02T03:50:51Z Indexed on 2011/11/27 17:55 UTC
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I am befuddled by this error. We keep failing to SSH into our AWS instance, whether it is is deployment or via console. I have tried rebooting a few times, but it does not seem to be helping.

Here are a couple of error messages i keep getting.

connection failed for: HOST.NAME.amazonaws.com (Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Operation timed out - connect(2))

111.222.333.444: ssh connection failed at 2010-07-02 03:39:37

I also SSHed in when it was up, and monitored "top" when ssh times out. looking at the memory logs, it does not look like any program was hogging

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