Amazon ElastiCache Elasticache Cache Security Group API

The Elasticache Cache Security Group API from Amazon ElastiCache — 3 operation(s) for elasticache cache security group.

Business capability
IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 3

POST /?Action=CreateCacheSecurityGroup Create Cache Security Group #
POST /?Action=DeleteCacheSecurityGroup Delete Cache Security Group #
POST /?Action=DescribeCacheSecurityGroups Describe Cache Security Groups #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-elasticache-cache-security-group-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon ElastiCache Cache Security Group API
  version: '2015-02-02'
  description: Generated from AWS's published Smithy model for Amazon ElastiCache. 3 operation(s).
  contact:
    name: Amazon Web Services
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    identifier: Apache-2.0
    url: https://github.com/aws/api-models-aws/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://elasticache.{region}.amazonaws.com
  variables:
    region:
      default: us-east-1
security:
- sigv4: []
tags:
- name: Cache Security Group
paths:
  /?Action=CreateCacheSecurityGroup:
    post:
      operationId: CreateCacheSecurityGroup
      summary: Create Cache Security Group
      description: Creates a new cache security group. Use a cache security group to control access to one or more clusters. Cache security groups are only used when you are creating a cluster outside of an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). If you are creating a cluster inside of a VPC, use a cache subnet group instead. For more information, see CreateCacheSubnetGroup.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCacheSecurityGroupResult'
        '400':
          description: CacheSecurityGroupAlreadyExistsFault; CacheSecurityGroupQuotaExceededFault; InvalidParameterCombinationException; InvalidParameterValueException; TagQuotaPerResourceExceeded
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CacheSecurityGroupAlreadyExistsFault'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: CreateCacheSecurityGroup
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2015-02-02'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCacheSecurityGroupMessage'
            example:
              CacheSecurityGroupName: my-cache-sec-grp
              Description: Example ElastiCache security group.
      tags:
      - Cache Security Group
  /?Action=DeleteCacheSecurityGroup:
    post:
      operationId: DeleteCacheSecurityGroup
      summary: Delete Cache Security Group
      description: Deletes a cache security group. You cannot delete a cache security group if it is associated with any clusters.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
        '404':
          description: CacheSecurityGroupNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CacheSecurityGroupNotFoundFault'
        '400':
          description: InvalidCacheSecurityGroupStateFault; InvalidParameterCombinationException; InvalidParameterValueException
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidCacheSecurityGroupStateFault'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: DeleteCacheSecurityGroup
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2015-02-02'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteCacheSecurityGroupMessage'
            example:
              CacheSecurityGroupName: my-sec-group
      tags:
      - Cache Security Group
  /?Action=DescribeCacheSecurityGroups:
    post:
      operationId: DescribeCacheSecurityGroups
      summary: Describe Cache Security Groups
      description: Returns a list of cache security group descriptions. If a cache security group name is specified, the list contains only the description of that group. This applicable only when you have ElastiCache in Classic setup
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CacheSecurityGroupMessage'
        '404':
          description: CacheSecurityGroupNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CacheSecurityGroupNotFoundFault'
        '400':
          description: InvalidParameterCombinationException; InvalidParameterValueException
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterCombinationException'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: DescribeCacheSecurityGroups
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2015-02-02'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeCacheSecurityGroupsMessage'
            example:
              CacheSecurityGroupName: my-sec-group
      tags:
      - Cache Security Group
components:
  schemas:
    EC2SecurityGroup:
      type: object
      properties:
        Status:
          type: string
          description: The status of the Amazon EC2 security group.
        EC2SecurityGroupName:
          type: string
          description: The name of the Amazon EC2 security group.
        EC2SecurityGroupOwnerId:
          type: string
          description: The Amazon account ID of the Amazon EC2 security group owner.
    CacheSecurityGroupAlreadyExistsFault:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
    InvalidCacheSecurityGroupStateFault:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
    CreateCacheSecurityGroupMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        CacheSecurityGroupName:
          type: string
          description: 'A name for the cache security group. This value is stored as a lowercase string. Constraints: Must contain no more than 255 alphanumeric characters. Cannot be the word "Default". Example: mysecuritygroup'
        Description:
          type: string
          description: A description for the cache security group.
        Tags:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
          description: A list of tags to be added to this resource. A tag is a key-value pair. A tag key must be accompanied by a tag value, although null is accepted.
      required:
      - CacheSecurityGroupName
      - Description
    CacheSecurityGroupNotFoundFault:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
    DescribeCacheSecurityGroupsMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        CacheSecurityGroupName:
          type: string
          description: The name of the cache security group to return details for.
        MaxRecords:
          type: integer
          description: 'The maximum number of records to include in the response. If more records exist than the specified MaxRecords value, a marker is included in the response so that the remaining results can be retrieved. Default: 100 Constraints: minimum 20; maximum 100.'
        Marker:
          type: string
          description: An optional marker returned from a prior request. Use this marker for pagination of results from this operation. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords.
    CreateCacheSecurityGroupResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        CacheSecurityGroup:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CacheSecurityGroup'
    CacheSecurityGroup:
      type: object
      properties:
        OwnerId:
          type: string
          description: The Amazon account ID of the cache security group owner.
        CacheSecurityGroupName:
          type: string
          description: The name of the cache security group.
        Description:
          type: string
          description: The description of the cache security group.
        EC2SecurityGroups:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/EC2SecurityGroup'
          description: A list of Amazon EC2 security groups that are associated with this cache security group.
        ARN:
          type: string
          description: The ARN of the cache security group,
    DeleteCacheSecurityGroupMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        CacheSecurityGroupName:
          type: string
          description: The name of the cache security group to delete. You cannot delete the default security group.
      required:
      - CacheSecurityGroupName
    InvalidParameterCombinationException:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Two or more parameters that must not be used together were used together.
    CacheSecurityGroupMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        Marker:
          type: string
          description: Provides an identifier to allow retrieval of paginated results.
        CacheSecurityGroups:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/CacheSecurityGroup'
          description: A list of cache security groups. Each element in the list contains detailed information about one group.
    Tag:
      type: object
      properties:
        Key:
          type: string
          description: The key for the tag. May not be null.
        Value:
          type: string
          description: The tag's value. May be null.
  securitySchemes:
    sigv4:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: AWS Signature Version 4. The Authorization header carries an AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 signature over the canonical request, with X-Amz-Date (and X-Amz-Security-Token for temporary credentials). Not a bearer token.
      x-aws-sigv4:
        signingName: elasticache
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: Amazon Web Services
  source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/api-models-aws/582e55931c45b944739742a2c1620b6026dd2d13/models/elasticache/service/2015-02-02/elasticache-2015-02-02.json
  note: converted by smithy-to-openapi.py from AWS's Smithy model (roadmap#1001)