Hello Adrem,
You will need to setup port forwarding on your router for the external AWS machines to communicate with your local machine ip (to route comms to your local ip and then to your local node port). Try to Google port forwarding for specific your router, as each router will entail its own process.
As your firewall is down, and with the local node running, you should be able to use this tool to confirm whether your port forward implementations successful: