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Unable to delete a Security Group Rule

I added an Inbound Rule to a Security Group, temporarily. After I was done with it, I attempt to remove it. When I try I get the following error... There was an error modifying your security group inbound rules The specified rule does not exist in this security group.

It is still listed as a rule, but I cannot delete it. Advice? thx

Topics: AWS Well-Architected Framework
Tags: Security Group Security
Language: English

Doug Sims

asked 3 years ago1.4K views

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Check if you have permission to delete security group rules.
Try to use cli command to delete the ingress rule, such as: aws ec2 revoke-security-group-ingress
--group-name mySecurityGroup --protocol tcp
--port 22
--cidr 203.0.113.0/24

Chunming

answered 3 years ago

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