DeleteSecurityGroup

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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DeleteSecurityGroup

Description

Deletes a security group that you own.

[Note]Note

If you attempt to delete a security group that contains instances, a fault is returned.

If you attempt to delete a security group that is referenced by another security group, a fault is returned. For example, if security group B has a rule that allows access from security group A, security group A cannot be deleted until the allow rule is removed.

Request Parameters

NameDescriptionRequired

DeleteSecurityGroupType

DeleteSecurityGroupType element.

Type:

DeleteSecurityGroupType

Ancestor: None

Children: groupName

groupName

Name of the security group to delete.

Type: xsd:string

Default: None

Ancestor: DeleteSecurityGroupType

Children: None

Yes

Response Elements

Name Description

DeleteSecurityGroupResponseType

DeleteSecurityGroupResponseType element.

Type: DeleteSecurityGroupResponseType

Ancestor: None

Children: requestId, return

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: DeleteSecurityGroupResponseType

Children: None

return

Returns

Type: xsd:boolean

Ancestor: DeleteSecurityGroupResponseType

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes the websrv security group.

<DeleteSecurityGroup xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
  <groupName>websrv</groupName>
</DeleteSecurityGroup>

Example Response

<DeleteSecurityGroupResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteSecurityGroupResponse>
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