ec2-add-group

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-08-08

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ec2-add-group

Syntax

ec2-add-group group -d description

Description

Creates a new security group. Group names must be unique per account.

Options

OptionDescriptionRequired

group

Name of the security group.

Example: webservers

Yes

-d description

Description of the group. This is informational only. If the description contains spaces, you must enclose it in single quotes (').

Example: -d 'Web servers'

Yes

Output

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

  • Output type identifier ("GROUP")

  • Group name

  • Group description

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example creates the websrv security group.

PROMPT> ec2-add-group websrv -d 'Web servers'
GROUP websrv Web servers

Related Topics

CreateSecurityGroup

  • ec2-describe-group

  • ec2-delete-group

  • ec2-authorize

  • ec2-revoke

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