Compared with basic security groups, advanced security groups can contain more ECS instances, elastic network interfaces (ENIs), and private IP addresses. Advanced security groups also simplify the configuration policies of security group rules. Advanced security groups can be used in scenarios that have higher requirements for O&M efficiency, ECS instance specifications, and compute nodes.
Comparison of features
The following table compares the features of basic and advanced security groups. For more information about basic security groups, see Overview.
Feature | Basic security group | Advanced security group |
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Supports all instance types | Yes. | No. The instance must be of the VPC type. |
Supports VPCs | Yes. | Yes. |
Supports the classic network | Yes. | No. |
Allows you to configure rule priorities | Yes. | No. |
Allows access from other security groups | Yes. | No. |
Allows you to manually set security group rules that allow access from other security groups | Yes. | Yes. |
Allows you to manually set Deny security group rules | Yes. | No. Advanced security groups deny all access requests by default. |
Default outbound policy | By default, ECS instances in a security group allow outbound traffic. | By default, ECS instances in a security group do not allow outbound traffic. You must add outbound rules for a security group. |
Allows you to bind ENIs to instances of any instance type | No. The instance must be of the VPC type. | No. The instance must be of the VPC type. |
Maximum number of private IP addresses | 2000 | 65536 |
Allows mutual access between ECS instances within the same security group by default | Yes. | No. To allow mutual access between ECS instances within the same security group, you must add security group rules. |
Billing
You are not charged extra fees when you use advanced security groups.
Limits
For the limits and quotas of advanced security groups, see the "Security group limits" section of the Limits topic.
In addition to the preceding limits, ECS instances must also meet the following requirements before they can be added to advanced security groups:
- The network type of ECS instances must be VPC.
- ECS instances and elastic network interfaces (ENIs) have the following requirements
for their security group types:
- The primary ENI of an instance cannot belong to both a basic and an advanced security group at the same time.
- A secondary ENI cannot belong to both a basic and an advanced security group at the same time.
Workflow
- Use advanced security groups to manage instances
- Use advanced security groups to manage ENIs
- When you create the security group by using the ECS console, a security group rule is added to allow all outbound traffic. We recommend that you keep the default setting to avoid network connectivity issues.
- When you create the security group by calling an API operation, no security group rules are added. All outbound traffic is denied by default. We recommend that you manually add security group rules.
Procedure in the console
Operation in the ECS console | Description | Reference |
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Create an advanced security group | When you create an advanced security group, set Security Group Type to Advanced Security Group. | Create a security group |
Add a security group rule | An advanced security group is equivalent to an access whitelist. Only rules that allow access from other security groups can be added, and authorization objects can only be CIDR blocks. These rules have no priorities. | Add security group rules |
Add an ECS instance to an advanced security group | The ECS instance cannot belong to both a basic and an advanced security group at the same time. If the instance belongs to a basic security group, you can replace the basic security group with an advanced security group. | |
Add an ENI to an advanced security group | If the ENI belongs to a basic security group, you can modify the ENI to add it to an advanced security group. | Modify an ENI |
Bind the ENI to an ECS instance | After the ENI is bound to the instance, the security group rules immediately take effect. | Bind an ENI |
Manage advanced security groups | The operations include adding tags, modifying names and descriptions, and managing instances in the advanced security groups. | |
Manage rules for advanced security groups | You can modify security group rules during application operation based on your actual needs. |
API operations
API | Description |
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CreateSecurityGroup | When you call this operation, set the SecurityGroupType request parameter to enterprise.
Note Before you create an advanced security group, make sure that a VPC and a VSwitch are
available.
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AuthorizeSecurityGroup | You can call this operation to add a rule that allows inbound traffic to the advanced
security group. Authorization objects can only be CIDR blocks.
An advanced security group is equivalent to an access whitelist. You can use the following
parameters to configure security group rules:
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AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress | You can call this operation to add an outbound rule to an advanced security group.
Note We recommend that you add a security group rule to allow all outbound traffic.
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JoinSecurityGroup | You can call this operation to add a VPC-type instance to an advanced security group. |
ModifyInstanceAttribute | If an instance belongs to a basic security group, you can call the ModifyInstanceAttribute operation to replace the security group with an advanced security group.
Note When you switch an ECS instance to a security group of a different type, you must
understand the differences between the rule configurations of the two security group
types to avoid affecting the instance network.
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ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute | If an ENI belongs to a basic security group, you can call the ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute operation to add the ENI to an advanced security group. |
AttachNetworkInterface | You can call this operation to bind the ENI that has been added to an advanced security group to an ECS instance. |
DescribeSecurityGroups | You can call this operation to query the advanced security groups within the current region. |