Checks all security groups used by all instances in an AWS account and compares them to the list of all security groups, deleting the unused ones.

security-group-cleanup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import boto
import pprint

del_flag = ''
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    del_flag = sys.argv[1]

pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)

# set credentials
ACCESS_KEY="<access key>"
SECRET_KEY="<security key>"

ec2 = boto.connect_ec2(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY)

allgroups = []
# Get ALL security groups names
groups = ec2.get_all_security_groups()
for groupobj in groups:
    allgroups.append(groupobj.name)
# pp.pprint(sorted(allgroups))

# Get [running|stopped] instances security groups
groups_in_use = []
for state in ['running','stopped']:
    reservations = ec2.get_all_instances(filters={'instance-state-name': state})
    for r in reservations:
        for inst in r.instances:
            for i in inst.groups:
                if i.name not in groups_in_use:
                    print i.name
                    groups_in_use.append(i.name)

delete_candidates = []
for group in allgroups:
    if group not in groups_in_use:
        delete_candidates.append(group)

if del_flag == '--delete':
    print "We will now delete security groups identified to not be in use."
    for group in delete_candidates:
        ec2.delete_security_group(group)
    print "We have deleted %d groups." % (len(delete_candidates))
else:
    print "The list of security groups to be removed is below."
    print "Run this again with `--delete` to remove them"
    pp.pprint(sorted(delete_candidates))
    print "Total of %d groups targeted for removal." % (len(delete_candidates))




# For each security group in the total list, if not in the "used" list, flag for deletion
# If running with a "--delete" flag, delete the ones flagged.