DescribeSecurityGroupReferences
Describes the VPCs on the other side of a VPC peering or Transit Gateway connection that are referencing the security groups you've specified in this request.
Request Parameters
The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- DryRun
-
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is
DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it isUnauthorizedOperation.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- GroupId.N
-
The IDs of the security groups in your account.
Type: Array of strings
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
- securityGroupReferenceSet
-
Information about the VPCs with the referencing security groups.
Type: Array of SecurityGroupReference objects
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
Examples
Example 1
This example describes the security group references for sg-11aa22bb. The response indicates that this security group is referenced by a security group in VPC vpc-1a2b3c4d.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeSecurityGroupReferences
&GroupId.1=sg-11aa22bb
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<DescribeSecurityGroupReferencesResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>19744c88-baa2-45df-905f-example</requestId>
<securityGroupReferenceSet>
<item>
<referencingVpcId>vpc-1a2b3c4d</referencingVpcId>
<vpcPeeringConnectionId>pcx-b04deed9</vpcPeeringConnectionId>
<groupId>sg-11aa22bb</groupId>
</item>
</securityGroupReferenceSet>
</DescribeSecurityGroupReferencesResponse>Example 2
This example describes the security group references for sg-11aa22bb and sg-1111aaaa.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeSecurityGroupReferences
&GroupId.1=sg-11aa22bb
&GroupId.2=sg-1111aaaa
&AUTHPARAMS Sample Response
<DescribeSecurityGroupReferencesResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>d1835dca-61c1-459d-99cb-example</requestId>
<securityGroupReferenceSet>
<item>
<referencingVpcId>vpc-81326ae4</referencingVpcId>
<vpcPeeringConnectionId>pcx-b04deed9</vpcPeeringConnectionId>
<groupId>sg-11aa22bb</groupId>
</item>
<item>
<referencingVpcId>vpc-1a2b3c4d</referencingVpcId>
<vpcPeeringConnectionId>pcx-aabbccdd</vpcPeeringConnectionId>
<groupId>sg-1111aaaa</groupId>
</item>
</securityGroupReferenceSet>
</DescribeSecurityGroupReferencesResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
