Is it possible to create a S3 Bucket in us-east-1 using AWS Python Boto3

Question

Documentation

import logging
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError


def create_bucket(bucket_name, region=None):
    try:
        if region is None:
            s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
            s3_client.create_bucket(Bucket=bucket_name)
        else:
            s3_client = boto3.client('s3', region_name=region)
            location = {'LocationConstraint': region}
            s3_client.create_bucket(Bucket=bucket_name,
                                    CreateBucketConfiguration=location)
    except ClientError as e:
        logging.error(e)
        return False
    return True

Testing:

create_bucket('test', 'us-west-2') Works as expected -> Please select a different name and try again

create_bucket('test') The unspecified location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to.

create_bucket('test', 'us-east-1') The us-east-1 location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to.

What did I miss?

Answer 1

This creates a bucket in us-east-1:

s3_client = boto3.client('s3', region_name='us-east-1')
s3_client.create_bucket(Bucket='unique-name-here')