title: 503 error while connecting to my ec2 elastic beanstalk deployment
body: <p>i deployed my war onto elastic beanstalk and I am running many connections from an outside pc onto the service trying to load test. </p>
  
  <p>I am getting this error</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] 2011-08-09 07:03:52,134 could not process CompanyBridgePromoResult
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>com.sun.jersey.api.client.UniformInterfaceException: POST [url] returned a response status of 503
      at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.handle(WebResource.java:576)
      at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.access$300(WebResource.java:72)
      at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource$Builder.post(WebResource.java:506)
      at com.icon.sa.ac.JerseyAdminClient.itemSearch(JerseyAdminClient.java:507)
      at com.icon.sa.bridge.google.GoogleShoppingFtpCompanyBridge.handle(GoogleShoppingFtpCompanyBridge.java:1)
      at com.icon.sa.bridge.BasicCompanyBridge$1.run(BasicCompanyBridge.java:86)
      at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
      at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
      at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)</p>
  
  <p>I am running c3p0 as my connection pool. I cannot see any errors on the server and its healthy. </p>
  
  <p>Does amazon have a service to block out certain connections after too many connections from the same host? I tested locally I did not have any of these problems. </p>