The time I couldn’t connect to SQL Server

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Hussein Nasser
Sep 27, 2025
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The time I couldn’t connect to SQL Server

I like troubleshooting connection problems to backend applications and databases. I thought I have seen them all until I recently ran into an interesting one with SQL Server on aws and thought I’ll share it here.

On aws you can control access to EC2 instances with security groups. Because no one has business acces…

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