You must specify a region error occurs when a default AWS Region is not configured.
Error:
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| You must specify a region. You can also configure your region by running "aws configure"
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How to fix the You must specify a region
error
Method 1:
Set the AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
environment variable
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| export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-east-1"
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Method 2:
Include the default region in the ~/.aws/config
file or run aws configure
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| > aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]:
AWS Secret Access Key [None]:
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]:
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The ~/.aws/config
file will be generated with the following configuration:
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region = us-east-1
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Method 3:
Explicity specify the region with the AWS API
AWS CLI:
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| aws ec2 describe-instances --region us-east-1
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Python Boto3:
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| import boto3
kms = boto3.client("kms", region_name="us-east-1")
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JavaScript AWS SDK
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| import { S3Client } from '@aws-sdk/client-s3';
const s3Client = new S3Client({
region: 'us-east-1'
});
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