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=Describe Regions=
aws ec2 describe-regions [--region-name eu-north-1]


=Set the AWS Region=
=Set the AWS Region=

Revision as of 20:13, 10 April 2019

Internal

Overview

Get the AWS Region

 aws configure get region

Describe Regions

aws ec2 describe-regions [--region-name eu-north-1]

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 ...