How to specify AWS region in CloudFormation VPC

Question

Reading through the AWS CloudFormation VPC docs, I'm not seeing how/where I specify the region to create the VPC in. Any ideas as to how this configuration works?

Answer 1

You specify the region you're deploying to with your CLI credentials / profile rather than in the CloudFormation template. This makes it easier to deploy the same template to different regions.

~/.aws/credentials

[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

~/.aws/config

[default]
region=us-west-2
output=json