Amazon EC2 Security Groups API
Operations for managing security group rules and firewall settings
Amazon EC2 Security Groups API is one of 8 APIs that Amazon EC2 publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Security Groups. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, pricing, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, and 2 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2016-11-15.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Amazon EC2 Security Groups API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (sigv4Auth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
sigv4Auth— AWS Signature Version 4 authentication
Paths & Operations 4
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations for managing security group rules and firewall settings
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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