Get the list of security groups in the AWS account

Prerequisites

• AWS CLI v2

AWS CLI command to list security groups

# filename: list-security-groups

aws ec2 describe-security-groups \
  --query 'SecurityGroups[*].{
    Name:GroupName,
    Id:GroupId,
    Vpc:VpcId}' \
  --output table

Sample output

--------------------------------------------------------------
|                   DescribeSecurityGroups                   |
+-----------------------+----------+-------------------------+
|          Id           |  Name    |           Vpc           |
+-----------------------+----------+-------------------------+
|  sg-0f18db46b549202de |  default |  vpc-01e4c55e6e91c5a85  |
|  sg-13fbac2a          |  default |  vpc-ac2ec5d1           |
+-----------------------+----------+-------------------------+

See also

• List EC2 Instances
• List Vpcs