Concepts

Concepts used in AWS EC2 book.

The following documentation is for AWS EC2 v1.6.3 (BDK).

Ec2 security group

Represents an EC2 security group.

Field Name	Description	Type
id	The ID of the security group.	text
name	The name of the security group.	text
description	The description of the security group.	text
vpc_id	The ID of the VPC to which the security group belongs.	text
tags	A list of tags associated with the security group.	list of aws tag

Aws tag

Represents an AWS tag.

Field Name	Description	Type
key	The key of the tag.	text
value	The value of the tag.	text

Ec2 ip permission

Represents an IP permission for an EC2 security group.

Field Name	Description	Type
ip_protocol	The IP protocol for the permission.	text
from_port	The start port for the permission.	number
to_port	The end port for the permission.	number
ip_ranges	The list of IP ranges for the permission.	optional[list of json]
ipv6_ranges	The list of IPv6 ranges for the permission.	optional[list of json]
prefix_list_ids	The list of prefix list IDs for the permission.	optional[list of json]

Ec2 security group rule

Represents an EC2 security group rule.

Field Name	Description	Type
rule_id	The ID of the security group rule.	text
group_id	The ID of the security group.	text
group_owner_id	The AWS account ID of the security group owner.	text
is_egress	Whether the rule is an egress rule (True) or ingress rule (False).	boolean
ip_protocol	The IP protocol for the rule.	text
from_port	The start port (or ICMP type) for the rule.	number
to_port	The end port (or ICMP code) for the rule.	number
tags	A list of tags associated with the security group rule.	list of aws tag
rule_arn	The ARN of the security group rule.	text
cidr_ipv4	The IPv4 CIDR range for the rule, if applicable.	optional[text]

Concept attribute specifications

ip_ranges (ec2 ip permission)

Name	Type
description	optional[text]
cidr_ip	optional[text]

ipv6_ranges (ec2 ip permission)

Name	Type
description	optional[text]
cidr_ipv6	optional[text]

prefix_list_ids (ec2 ip permission)

Name	Type
description	optional[text]
prefix_list_id	optional[text]