region Property
The region that the class will make requests against.
Syntax
def get_region() -> str: ... def set_region(value: str) -> None: ...
region = property(get_region, set_region)
Default Value
"us-east-1"
Remarks
This property controls which region the class will make requests against. By default the class uses us-east-1, the US East (N. Virginia) region. This property should be changed in order to create or access resources in other regions, as CMKs and aliases are region-specific resources.
Regions:
| Value | Region |
| us-east-1 (Default) | US East (N. Virginia) |
| us-east-2 | US East (Ohio) |
| us-west-1 | US West (N. California) |
| us-west-2 | US West (Oregon) |
| af-south-1 | Africa (Cape Town) |
| ap-east-1 | Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) |
| ap-northeast-1 | Asia Pacific (Tokyo) |
| ap-northeast-2 | Asia Pacific (Seoul) |
| ap-northeast-3 | Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) |
| ap-south-1 | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) |
| ap-southeast-1 | Asia Pacific (Singapore) |
| ap-southeast-2 | Asia Pacific (Sydney) |
| ca-central-1 | Canada (Central) |
| cn-north-1 | China (Beijing) |
| cn-northwest-1 | China (Ningxia) |
| eu-central-1 | Europe (Frankfurt) |
| eu-north-1 | Europe (Stockholm) |
| eu-south-1 | Europe (Milan) |
| eu-west-1 | Europe (Ireland) |
| eu-west-2 | Europe (London) |
| eu-west-3 | Europe (Paris) |
| me-south-1 | Middle East (Bahrain) |
| sa-east-1 | South America (Sao Paulo) |
| us-gov-east-1 | AWS GovCloud (US East) |
| us-gov-west-1 | AWS GovCloud (US West) |
The class will always convert this property's value to lowercase. If this property is cleared, the class will reset it to the default value.