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aws-regions
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$ npm install aws-regions
Returns all the regions.
const awsRegions = require('aws-regions')
awsRegions.list() ===
[
{
name: 'N. Virginia',
full_name: 'US East (N. Virginia)',
code: 'us-east-1',
public: true,
zones: [
'us-east-1a',
// ...
],
},
// ...
]
options
public
If true, will only return regions publicly available with a regular AWS account. Defaults to false
.Finds a region by the name or the code.
const awsRegions = require('aws-regions')
awsRegions.lookup({ code: 'us-east-1' }) ===
{
name: 'N. Virginia',
full_name: 'US East (N. Virginia)',
code: 'us-east-1',
public: true,
zones: [
'us-east-1a',
// ...
],
}
options
code
Lookup a region by its code (e.g. us-east-1
).name
Lookup a region by its name (e.g. N. Virginia
).If a region's data object includes zone_limit: int
, that means AWS accounts are limited to this number of availability zones (which will differ based on when your account was created.) You'll need to get your specific availability zones for this region with the AWS API or CLI.
FAQs
List of AWS Regions and Availability Zones
The npm package aws-regions receives a total of 4,188 weekly downloads. As such, aws-regions popularity was classified as popular.
We found that aws-regions demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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