While securing the connection between a company's VPC and its on-premises data center, a Security Engineer sent a ping command from an on-premises host(IP addre...

While securing the connection between a company's VPC and its on-premises data center, a Security Engineer sent a ping command from an on-premises host(IP address 203.0.113.12) to an Amazon EC2 instance (IP address 172.31.16.139). The ping command did not return a response. The flow log in the VPC showed the following:
2 123456789010 eni-1235b8ca 203.0.113.12 172.31.16.139 0 0 1 4 336 1432917027 1432917142 ACCEPT OK
2 123456789010 eni-1235b8ca 172.31.16.139 203.0.113.12 0 0 1 4 336 1432917094 1432917142 REJECT OK
What action should be performed to allow the ping to work?