How to do it...

  1. Log in to your AWS account and open the VPC Dashboard as shown in the earlier recipe.
  2. Click on Security Group in the left menu bar under the Security menu. The default SG created with the default VPC and other VPCs that we created in Chapter 1, Getting Started with AWS Networking Components, appears on the screen. If you click on Inbound Rules and Outbound Rules, you will see that all traffic, with all protocols from all ports, is allowed. So effectively, the firewall is all open and traffic from any source, protocol, and port can connect to the resources in this SG:
 Default Security group
  1. Click on Create Security Group ...

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