Delete an Amazon EC2 security group using an Amazon SDK - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Delete an Amazon EC2 security group using an Amazon SDK

The following code examples show how to delete an Amazon EC2 security group.

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.NET
Amazon SDK for .NET
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

/// <summary> /// Delete an Amazon EC2 security group. /// </summary> /// <param name="groupName">The name of the group to delete.</param> /// <returns>A Boolean value indicating the success of the action.</returns> public async Task<bool> DeleteSecurityGroup(string groupId) { var response = await _amazonEC2.DeleteSecurityGroupAsync(new DeleteSecurityGroupRequest { GroupId = groupId }); return response.HttpStatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK; }
C++
SDK for C++
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

Aws::EC2::EC2Client ec2Client(clientConfiguration); Aws::EC2::Model::DeleteSecurityGroupRequest request; request.SetGroupId(securityGroupID); auto outcome = ec2Client.DeleteSecurityGroup(request); if (!outcome.IsSuccess()) { std::cerr << "Failed to delete security group " << securityGroupID << ":" << outcome.GetError().GetMessage() << std::endl; } else { std::cout << "Successfully deleted security group " << securityGroupID << std::endl; }
Java
SDK for Java 2.x
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

public static void deleteEC2SecGroup(Ec2Client ec2,String groupId) { try { DeleteSecurityGroupRequest request = DeleteSecurityGroupRequest.builder() .groupId(groupId) .build(); ec2.deleteSecurityGroup(request); System.out.printf("Successfully deleted Security Group with id %s", groupId); } catch (Ec2Exception e) { System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage()); System.exit(1); } }
JavaScript
SDK for JavaScript (v3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

import { DeleteSecurityGroupCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-ec2"; import { client } from "../libs/client.js"; export const main = async () => { const command = new DeleteSecurityGroupCommand({ GroupId: "GROUP_ID", }); try { await client.send(command); console.log("Security group deleted successfully."); } catch (err) { console.error(err); } };
Kotlin
SDK for Kotlin
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This is prerelease documentation for a feature in preview release. It is subject to change.

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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

suspend fun deleteEC2SecGroup(groupIdVal: String) { val request = DeleteSecurityGroupRequest { groupId = groupIdVal } Ec2Client { region = "us-west-2" }.use { ec2 -> ec2.deleteSecurityGroup(request) println("Successfully deleted Security Group with id $groupIdVal") } }
Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

class SecurityGroupWrapper: """Encapsulates Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security group actions.""" def __init__(self, ec2_resource, security_group=None): """ :param ec2_resource: A Boto3 Amazon EC2 resource. This high-level resource is used to create additional high-level objects that wrap low-level Amazon EC2 service actions. :param security_group: A Boto3 SecurityGroup object. This is a high-level object that wraps security group actions. """ self.ec2_resource = ec2_resource self.security_group = security_group @classmethod def from_resource(cls): ec2_resource = boto3.resource('ec2') return cls(ec2_resource) def delete(self): """ Deletes the security group. """ if self.security_group is None: logger.info("No security group to delete.") return group_id = self.security_group.id try: self.security_group.delete() except ClientError as err: logger.error( "Couldn't delete security group %s. Here's why: %s: %s", group_id, err.response['Error']['Code'], err.response['Error']['Message']) raise
SAP ABAP
SDK for SAP ABAP
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

TRY. lo_ec2->deletesecuritygroup( iv_groupid = iv_security_group_id ). MESSAGE 'Security group deleted.' TYPE 'I'. CATCH /aws1/cx_rt_service_generic INTO DATA(lo_exception). DATA(lv_error) = |"{ lo_exception->av_err_code }" - { lo_exception->av_err_msg }|. MESSAGE lv_error TYPE 'E'. ENDTRY.

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