Trying to install gcc on ubuntu amazon EC2 instance

Question

I'm trying to install gcc and g++ compiler on my amazon ec2 instance. but when i type the command on the instance

sudo apt-get install gcc

I got stuck when I try to connect the amazon archives. I wait here a little bit:

0% [Connecting to us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com (54.231.160.74)]

and then get a bunch of errors about not being able to connect to the archives. Does anyone know the solution? Thanks.

Errors:

Err http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libasan0 i386 4.8.2-19ubuntu1
Could not connect to us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (54.231.160.74), connection timed out


E: Failed to fetch http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6-dev_2.19-0ubuntu6_i386.deb  Unable to connect to us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com:http:

Answer 1

Okay got the answer, I needed to arrange the outbound rules for my security group.

Answer 2

Keep the settings as shown in above picture and it will resolve the issue.