AWS Security Group Error

Question

On Amazon Web Services, I'm connecting an Elastic Beanstalk environment to an RDS database, per the tutorial. Launching the database instance worked fine; I connected it to a security group.

Adding the security group to my environment then fails. If I try to add the group name rds-launch-wizard, I get an error - use group id. If I try to add the group id sg-10bea66b, I get the error Security Group does not exist.

The security group does exist. What's going on?

Can you also include the screenshot of the security groups in your account and also why are you adding it twice? — Piyush Patil, Jul 29 '16 at 21:20
The second entry is my local IP, so I can access it through psql. I'll add the security groups. — Jared Nielsen, Jul 29 '16 at 21:21

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '16 at 21:25

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Your RDS instance is inside a VPC, whereas your Elastic Beanstalk application is in EC2-Classic (outside any VPC).

With some exceptions, only security groups that are in the same VPC can be added to each other.

Resolution: Put your EB application in the same VPC as your RDS instance.

answered Jul 29 '16 at 21:25

Matt Houser

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Thanks. How do I add the EB application to the VPC? – Jared Nielsen Jul 29 '16 at 21:32
That is another question you need to post :) – Piyush Patil Jul 29 '16 at 21:34
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Short answer: during the new eb application wizard, you're given the option to put the app in a vpc. Say yes at that time. – Matt Houser Jul 29 '16 at 21:51

AWS Security Group Error

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