DeleteSecurityGroup

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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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

GroupName

Name of the security group to delete.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

NameDescription

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 true if deletion succeeded. Otherwise, returns an error.

Type: xsd:boolean

Ancestor: DeleteSecurityGroupResponseType

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes the websrv security group.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteSecurityGroup&GroupName=websrv&AuthParams

Example Response

<DeleteSecurityGroupResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteSecurityGroupResponse>
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