Error creating S3 bucket in region us-east-1

[boompig]

This code fails

response = client.create_bucket(ACL="private", Bucket=s3_bucket_name, CreateBucketConfiguration={ "LocationConstraint": "us-east-1"})

With this error:

botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (InvalidLocationConstraint) when calling the CreateBucket operation: The specified location-constraint is not valid

This probably has to do with this "bug/quirk":

The location constraint for S3 US East region is an empty string according to the following documentation. You should always leave it blank when referring to S3 US Standard region.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTBucketGETlocation.html

But IMO the library should handle this quirk and allow "us-east-1" as the location string.

EDIT: Actually empty string also doesn't work, you have to omit the LocationConstraint parameter entirely.

[kyleknap]

Yeah this is the same as this request: #125. I think it would be nice if we did something to handle this or autopopulate location constraint for the user. I am going to close this as a duplicate, but let's keep the conversation going in the linked issue.