Select a Region for your Amazon EC2 resources - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Select a Region for your Amazon EC2 resources

Amazon EC2 resources are specific to the Amazon Region or zone in which they reside. When you create an Amazon EC2 resource, you select the Region for the resource.

Considerations

  • Some Amazon resources might not be available in all Regions. Ensure that you can create all the Amazon resources that you need in a Region before you start creating resources in a Region.

  • Some Regions are disabled by default. You must enable these Regions before you can use them. For more information , see Amazon Regions.

To select a Region for a resource using the console

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. From the navigation bar, choose the Regions selector and then choose the Region.

    View your Regions

  3. The Regions selector includes all resources that are available for use in your Amazon Web Services account. Choose the underlined text near the bottom of the list to view the Regions that are not enabled for your account.

To select a Region for a resource using the Amazon CLI

You can configure the Amazon CLI to use a default Region. If you don't specify a Region in the command, the default Region is used. To use a different Region for a specific command, add the following option.

--region us-east-1
To select a Region for a resource using the Tools for PowerShell

You can configure the Tools for Windows PowerShell to use a default Region. If you don't specify a Region in a command, the default Region is used. To use a different Region for a specific command, add the following parameter.

-Region us-east-1