How can I get rid of the "Warning: Invalid configuration encountered" in serverless.yml?

Question

Currently I'm trying to breakdown my serverless service into multiple services to get over the cloudFormation resource limit.

My current project structure is as follows:

aws-backend
  functions
    workers
      serverless.yml // workers service
.env.local
.env.dev
serverless.yml // Rest of the functions in here

In my workers service, I'm trying to reference the .env.* files in the root folder using variables.

My issue is when i use the following syntax

${env:SLS_AWS_REGION}

I get a

Error:Cannot resolve serverless.yml: Variables resolution errored with:
 - Cannot resolve variable at "provider.region": Value not found at "env" source

but when I use the following syntax: ${../../env:SLS_AWS_REGION}

It works but I get a warning:

Warning: Invalid configuration encountered
  at 'package.individually': must be boolean
  at 'provider.region': must be equal to one of the allowed values [use-east-1, etc...]

How can I get rid of this error? Am I even using the correct syntax?

Thanks

Answer 1

Essentially, what I had to do was resolve my own env variables manually. I used this link as a reference and the explanation in the dotenv plugin of serverless

TLDR: If you're using a serverless version beyond serverless>=2.26.0 then you will most likely need to wire up the envs on your own if you want to relocate your env files