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AWS ec2 documentation change

Service: ec2 · 2025-06-28 · Documentation medium

File: ec2/latest/devguide/example_ec2_RevokeSecurityGroupEgress_section.md

Summary

Added PowerShell V5 examples for revoking security group egress rules

Security assessment

The examples demonstrate removing outbound access rules, which is security-related configuration. However, this appears to be standard documentation improvement rather than addressing a specific vulnerability.

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diff --git a/ec2/latest/devguide/example_ec2_RevokeSecurityGroupEgress_section.md b/ec2/latest/devguide/example_ec2_RevokeSecurityGroupEgress_section.md
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+**Tools for PowerShell V5**
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+**Example 1: This example removes the rule for the specified security group for EC2-VPC. This revokes access to the specified IP address range on TCP port 80. The syntax used by this example requires PowerShell version 3 or higher.**
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+    $ip = @{ IpProtocol="tcp"; FromPort="80"; ToPort="80"; IpRanges="203.0.113.0/24" }
+    Revoke-EC2SecurityGroupEgress -GroupId sg-12345678 -IpPermission $ip
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+**Example 2: With PowerShell version 2, you must use New-Object to create the IpPermission object.**
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+    $ip = New-Object Amazon.EC2.Model.IpPermission
+    $ip.IpProtocol = "tcp"
+    $ip.FromPort = 80
+    $ip.ToPort = 80
+    $ip.IpRanges.Add("203.0.113.0/24")
+    Revoke-EC2SecurityGroupEgress -GroupId sg-12345678 -IpPermission $ip
+    
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+**Example 3: This example revokes access to the specified source security group on TCP port 80.**
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+    $ug = New-Object Amazon.EC2.Model.UserIdGroupPair
+    $ug.GroupId = "sg-1a2b3c4d"
+    $ug.UserId = "123456789012"
+    Revoke-EC2SecurityGroupEgress -GroupId sg-12345678 -IpPermission @( @{ IpProtocol="tcp"; FromPort="80"; ToPort="80"; UserIdGroupPairs=$ug } )
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+  * For API details, see [RevokeSecurityGroupEgress](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/v5/reference) in _AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V5)_. 
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