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Editing security groups

Editing security groups

- [Instructor] Back in the EC2 console, select your first web server instance. And under the Security tab, you'll see that my instance is running a security group called launch-wizard-1. When creating new security groups from the EC2 Launch Wizard, you can assign different names to new security groups before creating the instance by clicking the Edit button and giving the security group a different name. But once the security group is created, like launch-wizard-1, you can't edit its name. Once your account gets more usage, keeping up with your security groups can be challenging. In the EC2 console, on the left-hand menu, under Network & Security, click on Security Groups. Select the security group launch-wizard-1, and at the top, click on the Actions pull-down. Click the option Copy to new security group. For security group name, type webservers. And for the description, type Allows public SSH and HTTP for web servers.…

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