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Name

ec2-add-group

Synopsis

ec2-add-group groupname -d description

Adds a new security group into your Amazon EC2 environment. The group name you provide will identify the group for use in other commands. The description is simply a user-friendly description to help you remember the purpose of the group.

The new group allows no external access to instances launched in it. You must call ec2-authorize before any traffic will route to instances in this group.

Example

$ ec2-add-group mydmz -d DMZ
GROUP mydmz DMZ

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