DeleteSecurityGroup

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-12-01

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DeleteSecurityGroup

The DeleteSecurityGroup operation deletes a security group.

	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.

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.

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`groupName`	Name of the security group to delete. Type: xsd:string	Yes

groupName

Name of the security group to delete.

Type: xsd:string

Yes

Response Elements

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

Name Description

Name	Description
`return`	`true` if the group is deleted. Otherwise, `false`. Type: xsd:boolean

return

true if the group is deleted. Otherwise, false.

Type: xsd:boolean

Sample Request

<DeleteSecurityGroup xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-12-01">
    <groupName>RangedPortsBySource</groupName>
</DeleteSecurityGroup>

Sample Response

<DeleteSecurityGroupResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-12-01">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteSecurityGroupResponse>

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