title: AWS Load balancer OutOfService, Instance though InService
body: <p>Followed the entire tutorial at <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/getting-started-create-as.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/getting-started-create-as.html</a> and the problem I am having is with the load balancer.</p>
  
  <p>According to the Instances page and the Auto Scaling Groups page, the two instances I am running are InService and Healthy.</p>
  
  <p>On the Load Balancers page under the Instances tab for the load balancer, it lists each instance as OutOfService and each Availability Zone's Health status as "No (Availability Zone contains no healthy instances)".</p>
  
  <p>The part that is most confusing to me (and I believe to be the main issue) is that when I visit one of the instance's at its public dns ec2-server-name.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com, it displays the default "Amazon Linux AMI Test Page" but <strong>the headers of the page return 403.</strong></p>
  
  <p>So I imagine the issue is that the load balancer is running its health check and seeing that the instance's returned status code is 403. Why is it returning a 403 error code though? When I load the instance in browser I can see the page and everything seems to work, but when I visit the load balancer all I get is a blank white page.</p>