DeleteSecurityGroup - Elastic Compute Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Deletes a single security group. When a security group is deleted, the rules in the security group are also deleted.

Operation description

Take note of the following items:

Before you delete a security group, make sure that the security group does not contain Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances or elastic network interfaces (ENIs) (because operations of releasing ECS instances and ENIs are asynchronous) and the security group is not referenced by other security groups. Otherwise, the DeleteSecurityGroup request fails. You can call the DescribeSecurityGroupReferences operation to query the reference details of the security group.
If the InvalidOperation.DeletionProtection error code is returned when you call the DeleteSecurityGroup operation to delete a security group or if a deletion protection-related message appears when you delete a security group in the ECS console, the deletion protection feature is enabled for the security group. When you create a Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) cluster, the deletion protection feature is enabled for an associated security group to prevent accidental deletion. You cannot manually disable the deletion protection feature for the security group. The deletion protection feature can be automatically disabled only after the ACK cluster is deleted. For more information, see Disable deletion protection for a security group.

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ecs:DeleteSecurityGroup	delete	*SecurityGroup `acs:ecs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:securitygroup/{#securitygroupId}`	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
RegionId	string	Yes	The region ID of the security group. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.	cn-hangzhou
SecurityGroupId	string	Yes	The security group ID. You can call the DescribeSecurityGroups operation to query the security group ID.	sg-bp1fg655nh68xyz9****

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The request ID.	473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	MissingParameter.RegionId	The parameter "RegionId" should not be null.	-
401	InvalidOperation.SecurityGroupNotAuthorized	The specified security group is not authorized to operate.	You do not have permission to operate the current security group.
403	DependencyViolation	There is still instance(s) in the specified security group.	The security group contains instances. Remove the instances from the security group and try again.
403	DependencyViolation	The specified security group has been authorized in another one.	The specified security group is referenced by another security group and cannot be deleted.
403	InvalidOperation.ResourceManagedByCloudProduct	%s	You cannot modify security groups managed by cloud services.
404	InvalidSecurityGroup.NotFound	The specified security group is not found.	The specified security group could not be found
500	InternalError	The request processing has failed due to some unknown error.	An internal error has occurred. Try again later.

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

Change history

Change time	Summary of changes	Operation
2024-01-03	The Error code has changed	View Change Details