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.
External DocumentationTo learn more, visit the AWS documentation.

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Basic Parameters

ParameterDescription
AWS Region(s)Enter the desired AWS Region(s).

To execute the action in multiple regions, provide a comma-separated list.
For example: us-east-1,eu-west-2.

If you wish to run the action in all available regions, use the asterisk symbol (*) instead.
DescriptionA description for the security group. This is informational only.

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 ._-:/()#,@[]+=&;!$*.
Group NameThe 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 ._-:/()#,@[]+=&;!$*.
VPC ID[EC2-VPC] The ID of the VPC. Required for EC2-VPC.

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Advanced Parameters

ParameterDescription
Disable XML To JSON Auto ConvertWhen checked, XML responses are not automatically converted into JSON format.
Dry RunChecks 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 is UnauthorizedOperation.
Tag SpecificationsThe tags to assign to the security group.

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Example Output

{
	"GroupId": "sg-903004f8"
}

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Workflow Library Example

Ec2 Create Security Group with Aws and Send Results Via Email
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