ec2-delete-group

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-02-01

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ec2-delete-group

 Syntax

ec2-delete-group group

Description

Deletes the specified security group.

[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.

Options

Option Description Required

group

Name of the security group.

Example: webservers

Yes

Output

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

  • Output type identifier ("GROUP")

  • Name of the deleted security group

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This command deletes the websrv security group.

$ ec2-delete-group websrv
GROUP websrv

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