Endpoints

For information about this product's regions and endpoints, go to Regions and Endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

If you just specify the general endpoint (ec2.amazonaws.com), the us-east-1 endpoint is used. If you want to use a different region, you need to specify the endpoint associated with it. For example, if you specify ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com as the endpoint, Amazon EC2 directs your request to the us-west-2 endpoint which is used for the US West (Oregon) region.

For more information about Regions, see Region and Availability Zone Concepts.