Security Group

NetworkingAWS

General

General information about the service.

Description

A security group acts as a virtual firewall controlling inbound and outbound traffic.

Service Namespace

AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup

ARN Pattern

arn:aws:ec2:{region}:{account}:security-group/{sg-id}

References

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Naming Convention

sg-

Length

1-255

Valid Characters

Letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores

Scope

vpc

Code

Deploy your infrastructure as code using your preferred tooling.

Official Documentation Terraform

terraform

1resource "aws_security_group" "main" {
2  name        = "sg-${var.environment}-web"
3  description = "Web security group"
4  vpc_id      = aws_vpc.main.id
5  ingress {
6    from_port   = 443
7    to_port     = 443
8    protocol    = "tcp"
9    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
10  }
11}

Utilities

Utilities to support app deployment or configuration.

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