[cs615asa] Region issues

[Hongyi Shen]

Our team just ignore the problem by assuming that user has set region in
AWS_CONFIG_FILE (or default region of profile).

It is too complicated to solve it ....


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Nick Smith <nsmith1 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> In doing some testing I came to realize that AMIs are tied to a specific
> region. So, basically we have to have an AMI id ready for every region...
> or look one up. At some point we have to start making assumptions about the
> environment, can this be one of them?
>
> For a real example, if the user supplies a volume id that resides in
> "us-west-2" we need to have an AMI for that region so we can spin up an
> instance and mount the volume. This means we have to to test on multiple
> AMIs and may add a lot of complexity...
>
> How have other teams handled this? I'd like to assume a certain region is
> used to avoid this headache.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick S
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