CreateSecurityGroup#

Description#

Creates a security group.

Attention

You can create maximum 500 security groups per VPC.

Request Parameters#

Required parameters#

  • GroupDescription — The description of the security group.

    • Type: String

    • Required: Yes

  • GroupName — The name of the security group.

    • Type: String

    • Required: Yes

  • VpcId — The ID of the VPC.

    • Type: String

    • Required: Yes

Optional parameters#

  • TagSpecification.N — The tags assigned to the resource when it is created.

Response Elements#

  • groupId — The ID of the new security group.

    • Type: String

  • requestId — The request ID.

    • Type: String

  • return — True is returned if the request succeeds, and an error otherwise.

    • Type: Boolean

  • tagSet — Any tags assigned to the security group.

    • Type: List of Tag objects

Examples#

c2-ec2 CreateSecurityGroup GroupName <name> GroupDescription <description> VpcId <vpc_id>

c2-ec2 CreateSecurityGroup GroupName <name> GroupDescription <description> VpcId <vpc_id> \
                           TagSpecification.0.ResourceType security-group \
                           TagSpecification.0.Tag.0.Key "tag_key" TagSpecification.0.Tag.0.Value "tag_value"