AWS Region Operations

Internal

• Amazon Concepts

Get the AWS Region

 aws configure get region

Set the AWS Region

Set Region for AWS CLI in .aws Configuration Files

One possibility is to configure it manually in the AWS CLI configuration file.

...
[default]
region = us-west-2
...

Setting Region for EC2 CLI

export EC2_URL=https://<service_endpoint>  

Example:

export EC2_URL=https://ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

Note: For some reason, the console always shows by default "Oregon", which corresponds to https://ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Setting AWS Region for Spring Cloud

Spring Cloud applications can have their AWS region set in application.yml as follows:

cloud.aws.region.static: us-west-2

Setting Region for AWS CLI

aws --region us-west-2 ...