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by mappu 3476 days ago
Following the new AWS Canada region a week earlier.

An application i maintain at $DAYJOB has a drop-down selection for AWS region and i have periodically updated the list of possible values. Is it idiomatic for end-user software to manually enter the endpoint?
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JimmyAustin 3476 days ago
Probably depends on how technically adept your users are. You are probably going to want to validate the inputs anyway.

Thought about just hooking it up to the API?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_De...

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toomuchtodo 3476 days ago
Boto [1] releases updates when new regions are available, but if you were so inclined, you could poll for a list of regions as well:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_De...

[1] https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/2b405c0740a52101d85fb17d...

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