AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Describes the specified security groups or all of your security groups.

Note:

For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to DescribeSecurityGroupsAsync.

Namespace: Amazon.EC2
Assembly: AWSSDK.EC2.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public virtual DescribeSecurityGroupsResponse DescribeSecurityGroups(
         DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest request
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the DescribeSecurityGroups service method.

Return Value


The response from the DescribeSecurityGroups service method, as returned by EC2.

Examples

This example describes the specified security group.

To describe a security group


var client = new AmazonEC2Client();
var response = client.DescribeSecurityGroups(new DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest 
{
    GroupIds = new List<string> {
        "sg-903004f8"
    }
});


            

This example describes the security groups that include the specified tag (Purpose=test).

To describe a tagged security group


var client = new AmazonEC2Client();
var response = client.DescribeSecurityGroups(new DescribeSecurityGroupsRequest 
{
    Filters = new List<Filter> {
        new Filter {
            Name = "tag:Purpose",
            Values = new List<string> {
                "test"
            }
        }
    }
});


            

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5 and newer, 3.5

See Also