How To Determine The IP Address Of Your Computer For Amazon Web Services (AWS) Or Find The IP Address To Use To Authorize Inbound Traffic for AWS Windows Instances

If you ever need to figure out your external IP Address or you need to figure it out to authorize inbound traffic for your Windows database instances on AWS, Amazon has a little website tool that will help you accomplish this.

http://checkip.amazonaws.com/

This address will give you your external IP address and allow you to give AWS exactly what it needs.

Enjoy!
Kila Morton

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