while running terraform script to launch aws instance getting this error

Question

Error: Invalid AWS Region: us-west-2a

  on provider.tf line 1, in provider "aws":
   1: provider "aws" {

This is my provider.tf

provider "aws" {
  region  = "${var.region}"
  version = "~> 2.0"
}

can anybody help out?

Mark B · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-25 19:13:32Z

1

us-west-2a is an availability zone inside the us-west-2 region. You need to fix your var.region value.

answered Mar 25, 2021 at 19:13

Mark B

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