Aws-cli: AWS s3 get-bucket-location return null

[abhishekbedi1432]

Hi,
I have say three buckets in my AWS account.
When I run the below command
aws s3api get-bucket-location --bucket <my_bucket_name>
I get
{
"LocationConstraint": null
}

On checking the same bucket in AWS Console, the bucket region is US East (N. Virginia)

[justnance]

@abhishekbedi1432 - Thank you for reaching out. The location constraint will be null for buckets located in US Standard region. The CLI uses the values in the region column for the --region parameter. So for S3's US Standard, you need to use us-east-1 as the region. When working with this bucket you'll need to use:

aws s3api get-bucket-location --bucket <my_bucket_name> --region us-east-1

The following documentation provides a list of region names with their corresponding regions: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#s3_region. If this does not answer your question, please reply with the sanitized output from using --debug so I can dig a little deeper into the problem.

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[lee-pai-long]

For future reference if one need to retrieve the region of the bucket(which seems to be the case when using get-bucket-location, one can use jq to set the region by default:

aws s3api get-bucket-location --bucket "<my_bucket_name>" \
| jq -r '.LocationConstraint // "us-east-1"'

Or directly the query option(using JMESPath):

aws s3api get-bucket-location \
  --bucket "<my_bucket_name>" \
  --query="[?LocationConstraint]|'us-east-1'" \
  --output=text

Beware that the double quotes are required for the query to work.