Create a Security Group for EC2

A security group acts as a virtual firewall that controls traffic to and from its associated AWS resources.

1. Log into your AWS Console as a user with administrator privileges and go to the VPC console.
2. Click the Security groups tab in the sidebar.
3. Click the Create security group button.
   1. Entry a security group name.(e.g. velodb-server-sg)
   2. For VPC, select the VPC with which you want to associate the security group.
   3. Click Create security group.
4. Add inbound and outbound rules for the security group.
   1. Add Inbound Rules
      • Rule 1: Set Type to All TCP; For Source, select the security group you just created from the Source drop-down list.
      • Rule 2: Set Type to Custom TCP; For Port range, enter 8000-10000; For Source, enter the CIDR block of the VPC that you want to allow access from.
   2. Add Outbound Rules
      • By default, all outbound traffic is allowed. This is the standard configuration and usually requires no modification.
5. Click Save rules.
6. In the security group summary, copy the Security group ID to add to VeloDB console.