Aws-cli: [1.2.10][s3api] IllegalLocationConstraintException when using dots in bucket name

Created on 11 Jan 2014 · 2Comments · Source: aws/aws-cli

When running:
aws s3api create-bucket --region eu-west-1 --profile xxx --bucket com-a

everything works, however when runing:
aws s3api create-bucket --region eu-west-1 --profile xxx --bucket com.a

I get:
A client error (IllegalLocationConstraintException) occurred when calling the CreateBucket operation: The unspecified location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to.

But through Console it is possible to use dots.

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marekjagielski

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If you want to create a bucket in eu-west-1 with the low level S3 API you have to use the --create-bucket-configuration option

aws s3api create-bucket --bucket foo.bar --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=eu-west-1

jamesls on 16 Jan 2014

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If you want to create a bucket in eu-west-1 with the low level S3 API you have to use the --create-bucket-configuration option

aws s3api create-bucket --bucket foo.bar --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=eu-west-1

jamesls on 16 Jan 2014

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I think we bumped into this issue again, using boto3 (1.4.3)

To reproduce in a python repl:

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
b = s3.Bucket('test-with-d.0.t.s')

b.create() fails with: "botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (IllegalLocationConstraintException) when calling the CreateBucket operation: The unspecified location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to."

b.create(CreateBucketConfiguration={ 'LocationConstraint': 'us-west-2' }) works -- the json that gets sent along for the API call has 'Location': 'http://test-with-d.0.t.s.s3.amazonaws.com/' in it.