AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Container for the parameters to the CreateSecurityGroup operation. Creates a security group.

A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. For more information, see Amazon EC2 security groups in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide and Security groups for your VPC in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.

When you create a security group, you specify a friendly name of your choice. You can have a security group for use in EC2-Classic with the same name as a security group for use in a VPC. However, you can't have two security groups for use in EC2-Classic with the same name or two security groups for use in a VPC with the same name.

You have a default security group for use in EC2-Classic and a default security group for use in your VPC. If you don't specify a security group when you launch an instance, the instance is launched into the appropriate default security group. A default security group includes a default rule that grants instances unrestricted network access to each other.

You can add or remove rules from your security groups using AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress, AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress, RevokeSecurityGroupIngress, and RevokeSecurityGroupEgress.

For more information about VPC security group limits, see Amazon VPC Limits.

We are retiring EC2-Classic. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see Migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Amazon.Runtime.AmazonWebServiceRequest
    Amazon.EC2.AmazonEC2Request
      Amazon.EC2.Model.CreateSecurityGroupRequest

Namespace: Amazon.EC2.Model
Assembly: AWSSDK.EC2.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public class CreateSecurityGroupRequest : AmazonEC2Request
         IAmazonWebServiceRequest

The CreateSecurityGroupRequest type exposes the following members

Constructors

NameDescription
Public Method CreateSecurityGroupRequest()

Empty constructor used to set properties independently even when a simple constructor is available

Public Method CreateSecurityGroupRequest(string, string)

Instantiates CreateSecurityGroupRequest with the parameterized properties

Properties

NameTypeDescription
Public Property Description System.String

Gets and sets the property Description.

A description for the security group.

Constraints: Up to 255 characters in length

Constraints for EC2-Classic: ASCII characters

Constraints for EC2-VPC: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, spaces, and ._-:/()#,@[]+=&;{}!$*

Public Property GroupName System.String

Gets and sets the property GroupName.

The name of the security group.

Constraints: Up to 255 characters in length. Cannot start with sg-.

Constraints for EC2-Classic: ASCII characters

Constraints for EC2-VPC: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, spaces, and ._-:/()#,@[]+=&;{}!$*

Public Property TagSpecifications System.Collections.Generic.List<Amazon.EC2.Model.TagSpecification>

Gets and sets the property TagSpecifications.

The tags to assign to the security group.

Public Property VpcId System.String

Gets and sets the property VpcId.

[EC2-VPC] The ID of the VPC. Required for EC2-VPC.

Examples

This example creates a security group for the specified VPC.

To create a security group for a VPC


var client = new AmazonEC2Client();
var response = client.CreateSecurityGroup(new CreateSecurityGroupRequest 
{
    Description = "My security group",
    GroupName = "my-security-group",
    VpcId = "vpc-1a2b3c4d"
});

string groupId = response.GroupId;

            

Version Information

.NET Core App:
Supported in: 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5