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Elastic Compute Service:CreateSecurityGroup

Last Updated:Mar 19, 2024

Creates a security group. By default, a security group allows only instances in the security group to access each other. Access requests from outside the security group are denied. If you want to allow requests over the Internet or from instances in other security groups, you can call the AuthorizeSecurityGroup operation.

Operation description

When you call this operation, take note of the following items:

  • You can create up to 100 security groups in a single Alibaba Cloud region.
  • To create a security group of the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) type, you must specify the VpcId parameter.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer.

Authorization information

There is currently no authorization information disclosed in the API.

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
RegionIdstringYes

The region ID of the security group. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

cn-hangzhou
DescriptionstringNo

The description of the security group. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length. It cannot start with http:// or https://.

By default, this parameter is left empty.

testDescription
ClientTokenstringNo

The client token that is used to ensure the idempotence of the request. You can use the client to generate the token, but you must make sure that the token is unique among different requests. The token can contain only ASCII characters and cannot exceed 64 characters in length. For more information, see How to ensure idempotence.

123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000
SecurityGroupNamestringNo

The name of the security group.

The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter but cannot start with http:// or https://. It can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-). Default value: null.

testSecurityGroupName
VpcIdstringNo

The ID of the VPC in which you want to create the security group.

Note The VpcId parameter is required only if you want to create security groups of the VPC type. In regions that support the classic network, you can create security groups of the classic network type without the need to specify the VpcId parameter.
vpc-bp1opxu1zkhn00gzv****
SecurityGroupTypestringNo

The type of the security group. Valid values:

  • normal: basic security group.
  • enterprise: advanced security group. For more information, see Advanced security groups.
enterprise
ServiceManagedbooleanNo

This parameter is not publicly available.

false
ResourceGroupIdstringNo

The ID of the resource group to which the security group belongs.

rg-bp67acfmxazb4p****
Tagobject []No

The tags that you want to add to the security group.

keystringNo

The key of the tag.

Note This parameter will be removed in the future. We recommend that you use the Tag.N.Key parameter to ensure future compatibility.
null
KeystringNo

The key of tag N.

Valid values of N: 1 to 20. You cannot specify empty strings as tag keys. The tag key must be 1 to 128 characters in length and cannot contain http:// or https://. The tag key cannot start with acs: or aliyun.

TestKey
ValuestringNo

The value of tag N.

Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag value can be an empty string. It can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot start with acs: or contain http:// or https://.

TestValue
valuestringNo

The value of the tag.

Note This parameter will be removed in the future. We recommend that you use the Tag.N.Value parameter to ensure future compatibility.
null

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
SecurityGroupIdstring

The ID of the security group.

sg-bp1fg655nh68xyz9****
RequestIdstring

The request ID.

473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "SecurityGroupId": "sg-bp1fg655nh68xyz9****",
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E"
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
400InvalidDescription.MalformedThe specified parameter "Description" is not valid.The source description can be 2 to 256 characters in length. It cannot start with http:// and https://.
400InvalidSecurityGroupName.MalformedSpecified security group name is not valid.The specified SecurityGroupName parameter is invalid. This parameter is empty by default. If you specify a security group name, the name must be 2 to 128 characters in length and start with a letter. It can contain letters, digits, periods (.), underscores (_), and hyphens (-) and cannot start with http:// or https. The security group name is displayed in the ECS console.
400InvalidSecurityGroupDiscription.MalformedSpecified security group description is not valid.The specified security group description is invalid.
400IncorrectVpcStatusCurrent VPC status does not support this operation.The VPC is in a state that does not support the current operation.
400InvalidTagKey.MalformedSpecified tag key is not valid.The specified tag key is invalid.
400InvalidTagValue.MalformedSpecified tag value is not valid.The specified tag value is invalid.
400Duplicate.TagKeyThe Tag.N.Key contain duplicate key.The specified tag key already exists. Tag keys must be unique.
400InvalidTagKey.MalformedThe specified Tag.n.Key is not valid.The specified Tag.N.Key parameter is invalid.
400InvalidTagValue.MalformedThe specified Tag.n.Value is not valid.The specified tag value is invalid.
400InvalidParams.GroupTypeThe specified security group type is not valid.The specified SecurityGroupType parameter is invalid.
400InvalidParams.VpcIdGroupTypeOnly VPC instance supports enterprise level security group.Only ECS instances that reside in VPCs support advanced security groups.
403QuotaExceed.SecurityGroupThe maximum number of security groups is reached.The maximum number of security groups has been reached.
403InvalidVpcId.NotFoundvpc id must not empty when only support vpc vm.-
403IdempotentProcessingThe previous idempotent request(s) is still processing.A previous idempotent request is being processed. Try again later.
403QuotaExceed.Tags%sThe number of specified tags exceeds the upper limit. %s is a variable. An error message is dynamically returned based on call conditions.
403InvalidOperation.ResourceManagedByCloudProduct%sYou cannot modify security groups managed by cloud services.
404InvalidRegionId.NotFoundThe RegionId provided does not exist in our records.The RegionId provided does not exist
404InvalidVpcId.NotFoundSpecified VPC does not exist.The specified VPC ID does not exist.
404InvalidResourceGroup.NotFoundThe ResourceGroup provided does not exist in our records.The specified resource group does not exist.
404InvalidRegionId.NotFoundThe specified parameter RegionId is not valid.The specified RegionId parameter does not exist. Check whether the service is available in the specified region.
500InternalErrorThe request processing has failed due to some unknown error.An internal error has occurred. Try again later.
500InternalErrorThe request processing has failed due to some unknown error, exception or failure.An internal error has occurred. Try again later.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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