DeleteSecurityGroup
Deletes a security group.
If you attempt to delete a security group that is associated with an instance or network interface or is
referenced by another security group in the same VPC, the operation fails with
DependencyViolation
.
Request Parameters
The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- DryRun
-
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is
DryRunOperation
. Otherwise, it isUnauthorizedOperation
.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- GroupId
-
The ID of the security group.
Type: String
Required: No
- GroupName
-
[Default VPC] The name of the security group. You can specify either the security group name or the security group ID. For security groups in a nondefault VPC, you must specify the security group ID.
Type: String
Required: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
- return
-
Is
true
if the request succeeds, and an error otherwise.Type: Boolean
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
Examples
Example
This example deletes the specified security group.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteSecurityGroup
&GroupId=sg-1a2b3c4d
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<DeleteSecurityGroupResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId>
<return>true</return>
</DeleteSecurityGroupResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: