CreateCacheSecurityGroup
Creates a new cache security group. Use a cache security group to control access to one or more clusters.
Cache security groups are only used when you are creating a cluster outside of an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). If you are creating a cluster inside of a VPC, use a cache subnet group instead. For more information, see CreateCacheSubnetGroup.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- CacheSecurityGroupName
-
A name for the cache security group. This value is stored as a lowercase string.
Constraints: Must contain no more than 255 alphanumeric characters. Cannot be the word "Default".
Example:
mysecuritygroupType: String
Required: Yes
- Description
-
A description for the cache security group.
Type: String
Required: Yes
- Tags.Tag.N
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A list of tags to be added to this resource. A tag is a key-value pair. A tag key must be accompanied by a tag value, although null is accepted.
Type: Array of Tag objects
Required: No
Response Elements
The following element is returned by the service.
- CacheSecurityGroup
-
Represents the output of one of the following operations:
-
AuthorizeCacheSecurityGroupIngress -
CreateCacheSecurityGroup -
RevokeCacheSecurityGroupIngress
Type: CacheSecurityGroup object
-
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- CacheSecurityGroupAlreadyExists
-
A cache security group with the specified name already exists.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- InvalidParameterCombination
-
Two or more incompatible parameters were specified.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- InvalidParameterValue
-
The value for a parameter is invalid.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- QuotaExceeded.CacheSecurityGroup
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The request cannot be processed because it would exceed the allowed number of cache security groups.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- TagQuotaPerResourceExceeded
-
The request cannot be processed because it would cause the resource to have more than the allowed number of tags. The maximum number of tags permitted on a resource is 50.
HTTP Status Code: 400
Examples
CreateCacheSecurityGroup
This example illustrates one usage of CreateCacheSecurityGroup.
Sample Request
https://elasticache.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=CreateCacheSecurityGroup
&CacheSecurityGroupName=mycachesecuritygroup
&Description=My%20cache%20security%20group
&Version=2015-02-02
&SignatureVersion=4
&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
&Timestamp=20150202T192317Z
&X-Amz-Credential=<credential>Sample Response
<CreateCacheSecurityGroupResponse xmlns="http://elasticache.amazonaws.com/doc/2015-02-02/">
<CreateCacheSecurityGroupResult>
<CacheSecurityGroup>
<EC2SecurityGroups/>
<CacheSecurityGroupName>mycachesecuritygroup</CacheSecurityGroupName>
<OwnerId>123456789012</OwnerId>
<Description>My cache security group</Description>
</CacheSecurityGroup>
</CreateCacheSecurityGroupResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>2b1c8035-b7fa-11e0-9326-b7275b9d4a6c</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</CreateCacheSecurityGroupResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
