Boto3 AWS S3 bucket creation error

Question

I am beginner in Boto3 and working on AWS developer certification. I am trying to create a S3 bucket in my account. Below is my code

#!/usr/bin/python
import boto3
from boto3.session import Session
session = Session(aws_access_key_id='asd',aws_secret_access_key='asdas')

s3 = session.resource('s3')
s3.create_bucket(Bucket='myfbucket789076541253334')

region_name='ap-south-1' Then I tried a bunch of others from this link but did not help https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html

My code looks like this now

#!/usr/bin/python
import boto3
from boto3.session import Session
session = Session(aws_access_key_id='xyz',aws_secret_access_key='+af',region_name='eu-west-1')

s3 = session.resource('s3')
s3.create_bucket(Bucket='myfbucket789076541253334')

I get the below error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "S3_bucket.py", line 6, in <module>
    s3.create_bucket(Bucket='myfbucket789076541253334')
  File "/Users/xvz/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/boto3/resources/factory.py", line 520, in do_action
    response = action(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/xvz/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/boto3/resources/action.py", line 83, in __call__
    response = getattr(parent.meta.client, operation_name)(**params)
  File "/Users/xvz/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 314, in _api_call
    return self._make_api_call(operation_name, kwargs)
  File "/Users/xvz/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 612, in _make_api_call
    raise error_class(parsed_response, operation_name)
botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (IllegalLocationConstraintException) when calling the CreateBucket operation: The unspecified location constrai
nt is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to.

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Answer 1

From https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3api/create-bucket.html

Regions outside of us-east-1 require the appropriate LocationConstraint to be specified in order to create the bucket in the desired region

I believe you need to specify the location constraint when you create bucket. Here's a snippet from http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/s3.html

response = client.create_bucket(
   ...
    CreateBucketConfiguration={
        'LocationConstraint': 'eu-west-1'
    },
    ...
)