Can someone explain how to fix a missing config error with Node.js? I've followed all the examples from the aws doc page but I still get this error no matter what.
{ [ConfigError: Missing region in config]
message: 'Missing region in config',
code: 'ConfigError',
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Here is my code:
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var dd = new AWS.DynamoDB();
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
var bucketName = 'my-bucket';
AWS.config.update({region:'us-east-1'});
(...)
How about changing the order of statements? Update AWS config before instantiating s3 and dd
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWS.config.update({region:'us-east-1'});
var dd = new AWS.DynamoDB();
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
I had the same issue "Missing region in config" and in my case it was that, unlike in the CLI or Python SDK, the Node SDK won't read from the ~\.aws\config file.
To solve this, you have three options:
Configure it programmatically (hard-coded): AWS.config.update({region:'your-region'});
Use an environment variable. While the CLI uses AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, the Node SDK uses AWS_REGION.
Load from a JSON file using AWS.config.loadFromPath('./config.json');
JSON format:
{
"accessKeyId": "akid",
"secretAccessKey": "secret",
"region": "us-east-1"
}
If you work with AWS CLI, you probably have a default region defined in ~/.aws/config. Unfortunately AWS SDK for JavaScript does not load it by default. To load it define env var
AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1