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Issue

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If your Ubuntu EC2 instance is located in a VPC with strong firewall policies (security\ngroups and network ACLs), then it can happen that it won’t be able to synchronize\nthe time with NTP and timesyncd (https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/NTP.html).

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What can you observe?

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Just tail your /var/log/syslog and look for entries like below:

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systemd-timesyncd[456]: Timed out waiting for reply from 91.189.91.157:123 (ntp.ubuntu.com).
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How to fix it?

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The simplest solution is to leverage the\nAWS-provided NTP server\nthat is always available, whatever the network ACLs and security group rules are.

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Quote:

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The Amazon Time Sync Service is available through NTP at the 169.254.169.123 IP address for any instance running in a VPC. Your instance does not require access to the internet, and you do not have to configure your security group rules or your network ACL rules to allow access.

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Just run the following command manually or as a part of your user data script:

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sed -i 's/#NTP=/NTP=169.254.169.123/' /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
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Alternative

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A more complex alternative is to open UDP traffic on port 123 in your network ACLs and security groups. Haven’t tried that - if you do, don’t hesitate to edit the post!

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