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ec2-describe-group

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-12-01

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ec2-describe-group

Syntax

ec2-describe-group [group ...]

Description

Describes the current state of each specified security group. If no security groups are explicitly listed, Amazon EC2 displays all security groups owned by the current user.

Options

OptionDescriptionRequired

group

Name of the security group.

Example: webservers

Yes

Output

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

  • Output type identifier ("GROUP", "PERMISSION")

  • User ID of security group owner

  • Security group name

  • Description of the security group

  • Firewall rule

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example displays the state of the websrv security group.

PROMPT> ec2-describe-group websrv
GROUP 495219933132 websrv Web servers
PERMISSION 495219933132 websrv ALLOWS tcp 80 80 FROM CIDR 0.0.0.0/0

Related Topics

DescribeSecurityGroups

  • ec2-add-group

  • ec2-delete-group

  • ec2-authorize

  • ec2-revoke

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