Get data about an Amazon EC2 security group using an Amazon SDK - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Get data about an Amazon EC2 security group using an Amazon SDK

The following code examples show how to get data about an Amazon EC2 security group.

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.NET
Amazon SDK for .NET
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/// <summary> /// Retrieve information for an Amazon EC2 security group. /// </summary> /// <param name="groupId">The Id of the Amazon EC2 security group.</param> /// <returns>A list of security group information.</returns> public async Task<List<SecurityGroup>> DescribeSecurityGroups(string groupId) { var request = new DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest(); var groupIds = new List<string> { groupId }; request.GroupIds = groupIds; var response = await _amazonEC2.DescribeSecurityGroupsAsync(request); return response.SecurityGroups; } /// <summary> /// Display the information returned by the call to /// DescribeSecurityGroupsAsync. /// </summary> /// <param name="securityGroup">A list of security group information.</param> public void DisplaySecurityGroupInfoAsync(SecurityGroup securityGroup) { Console.WriteLine($"{securityGroup.GroupName}"); Console.WriteLine("Ingress permissions:"); securityGroup.IpPermissions.ForEach(permission => { Console.WriteLine($"\tFromPort: {permission.FromPort}"); Console.WriteLine($"\tIpProtocol: {permission.IpProtocol}"); Console.Write($"\tIpv4Ranges: "); permission.Ipv4Ranges.ForEach(range => { Console.Write($"{range.CidrIp} "); }); Console.WriteLine($"\n\tIpv6Ranges:"); permission.Ipv6Ranges.ForEach(range => { Console.Write($"{range.CidrIpv6} "); }); Console.Write($"\n\tPrefixListIds: "); permission.PrefixListIds.ForEach(id => Console.Write($"{id.Id} ")); Console.WriteLine($"\n\tTo Port: {permission.ToPort}"); }); Console.WriteLine("Egress permissions:"); securityGroup.IpPermissionsEgress.ForEach(permission => { Console.WriteLine($"\tFromPort: {permission.FromPort}"); Console.WriteLine($"\tIpProtocol: {permission.IpProtocol}"); Console.Write($"\tIpv4Ranges: "); permission.Ipv4Ranges.ForEach(range => { Console.Write($"{range.CidrIp} "); }); Console.WriteLine($"\n\tIpv6Ranges:"); permission.Ipv6Ranges.ForEach(range => { Console.Write($"{range.CidrIpv6} "); }); Console.Write($"\n\tPrefixListIds: "); permission.PrefixListIds.ForEach(id => Console.Write($"{id.Id} ")); Console.WriteLine($"\n\tTo Port: {permission.ToPort}"); }); }
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::DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest request; if (!groupID.empty()) { request.AddGroupIds(groupID); } Aws::String nextToken; do { if (!nextToken.empty()) { request.SetNextToken(nextToken); } auto outcome = ec2Client.DescribeSecurityGroups(request); if (outcome.IsSuccess()) { std::cout << std::left << std::setw(32) << "Name" << std::setw(30) << "GroupId" << std::setw(30) << "VpcId" << std::setw(64) << "Description" << std::endl; const std::vector<Aws::EC2::Model::SecurityGroup> &securityGroups = outcome.GetResult().GetSecurityGroups(); for (const auto &securityGroup: securityGroups) { std::cout << std::left << std::setw(32) << securityGroup.GetGroupName() << std::setw(30) << securityGroup.GetGroupId() << std::setw(30) << securityGroup.GetVpcId() << std::setw(64) << securityGroup.GetDescription() << std::endl; } } else { std::cerr << "Failed to describe security groups:" << outcome.GetError().GetMessage() << std::endl; return false; } nextToken = outcome.GetResult().GetNextToken(); } while (!nextToken.empty());
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 describeSecurityGroups(Ec2Client ec2, String groupId) { try { DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest request = DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest.builder() .groupIds(groupId) .build(); DescribeSecurityGroupsResponse response = ec2.describeSecurityGroups(request); for(SecurityGroup group : response.securityGroups()) { System.out.println( "Found Security Group with Id " +group.groupId() +" and group VPC "+ group.vpcId()); } } 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 { DescribeSecurityGroupsCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-ec2"; import { client } from "../libs/client.js"; // Log the details of a specific security group. export const main = async () => { const command = new DescribeSecurityGroupsCommand({ GroupIds: ["SECURITY_GROUP_ID"], }); try { const { SecurityGroups } = await client.send(command); console.log(JSON.stringify(SecurityGroups, null, 2)); } 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 describeEC2SecurityGroups(groupId: String) { val request = DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest { groupIds = listOf(groupId) } Ec2Client { region = "us-west-2" }.use { ec2 -> val response = ec2.describeSecurityGroups(request) response.securityGroups?.forEach { group -> println("Found Security Group with id ${group.groupId}, vpc id ${group.vpcId} and description ${group.description}") } } }
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 describe(self): """ Displays information about the security group. """ if self.security_group is None: logger.info("No security group to describe.") return try: print(f"Security group: {self.security_group.group_name}") print(f"\tID: {self.security_group.id}") print(f"\tVPC: {self.security_group.vpc_id}") if self.security_group.ip_permissions: print(f"Inbound permissions:") pp(self.security_group.ip_permissions) except ClientError as err: logger.error( "Couldn't get data for security group %s. Here's why: %s: %s", self.security_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. DATA lt_group_ids TYPE /aws1/cl_ec2groupidstrlist_w=>tt_groupidstringlist. APPEND NEW /aws1/cl_ec2groupidstrlist_w( iv_value = iv_group_id ) TO lt_group_ids. oo_result = lo_ec2->describesecuritygroups( it_groupids = lt_group_ids ). " oo_result is returned for testing purposes. " DATA(lt_security_groups) = oo_result->get_securitygroups( ). MESSAGE 'Retrieved information about security groups.' 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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