DeleteSecurityGroup

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-08-08

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DeleteSecurityGroup

The DeleteSecurityGroup operation deletes a 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.

Request Parameters

The following table describes the request parameters for DeleteSecurityGroup. Parameter names are case sensitive.

[Note] Note

A security group cannot be deleted if it is referenced by another security group. 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.
Name Description Required

GroupName

Name of the security group to delete.

Type: String

Yes

Response Elements

The following table describes the default response tags included in DeleteSecurityGroup responses.

Name Description

return

true if the group is deleted. Otherwise, false.

Type: xsd:boolean

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DeleteSecurityGroup
&GroupName=RangedPortsBySource
&...auth parameters...

Sample Response

<DeleteSecurityGroupResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-08-08">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteSecurityGroupResponse>

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