Getting Auth failure Exception for non enabled AWS regions in AWS account.

[sandip-vavhal]

  attributes = {}
    attributes.merge!({
      aws_access_key_id: "",
      aws_secret_access_key: "",
      region: "af-south-1",
      provider: 'AWS'
    })

ec2 = Fog::Compute.new(attributes)
ec2.servers.all({})
Actual Result:
Getting Fog::AWS::Compute::Error: AuthFailure => AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials
Expected Result: Should not get the AuthFailure exception in case of in your AWS account. Any of the regions is not Activated/Enabled.
need to give a more specific exception.

[geemus]

I think we are just returning what AWS has told us here. So if they are not more specific about the error, we don't have a good way of knowing if it is related to region enablement or bad credentials for some other reason. Does that make sense?

[sandip-vavhal]

@geemus checked with AWS SDK getting the same exception for non-enabled AWS regions. not found any other way to deal with it.
Thanks

[geemus]

Thanks for confirming and letting me know. Wish we could help more, but I guess we are kind of stuck.