Error connecting from CLI to AWS windows 2016 instance - Could not connect to the endpoint URL: “https://ec2.us-west-2a.amazonaws.com/”

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I have created AWS EC2 Windows 16 instance and was able to attach additional volume etc...and so far so good.

I wanted to try to use CLI commands.

Installed CLI on AWS-EC2 windows instance. and did according the instructions attached in the picture below.

when I type "aws ec2 describe-instances I get "Could not connect to the endpoint URL" When I was creating the instance, I chose a "Security Group" that had HTTPS enabled.

any help?

error message

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amazon-ec2aws-cli

1 Answers

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You probably have something wrong in your default profile for the default region.

Check your file at ~/.aws/config (or C:\Users\USERNAME \.aws\config for windows users), you have something like

[default]
region=us-west-2a
...

Fix the region to region=us-west-2 and then the command will work correctly

You can review the AWS page to make sure you have a valid endpoint http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html, they are classified by AWS services