Invalid LocationConstraint error in lab 03_QuestionAnswering/knowledge-bases /0_create_ingest_documents_test_kb.ipynb

TL;DR

Remove the item in the bold from the below code in the notebook cell to create S3 bucket for knowledgebase : # Create S3 bucket for knowledge base data source s3bucket = s3client.createbucket( Bucket=bucketname, CreateBucketConfiguration={ 'LocationConstraint': regionname } )

Steps

1. [GAcharyaOS (reporter)]: us-east-1 is special: S3 rejects CreateBucketConfiguration with a LocationConstraint there, so delete the CreateBucketConfiguration={ 'LocationConstraint': regionname } argument from the createbucket call. Every other region works with the existing code. If you want one snippet that works in all regions, set the region on the client instead: s3client = boto3.client('s3', regionname=region_name).
2. https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop/issues/190: Issue aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop#190 (closed, 5 comments): The jupyter notebook provided in the lab does not work for deployment in us-east-1 region. Remove the item in the bold from the below code in the notebook cell to create S3 bucket for knowledgebase : # Create S3 bucket for knowledge base data source s3bucket = s3client.createbucket( Bucket=bucketname**, CreateBucketConfiguration={ 'LocationConstraint': regionname }** )

When to use

You are seeing this: https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop/issues/190: Issue aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop#190 (closed, 5 comments): The jupyter notebook provided in the lab does not work for deployment in us-east-1 region. Use this skill when you run into "Invalid LocationConstraint error in lab 03QuestionAnswering/knowledge-bases /0createingestdocumentstestkb.ipynb".

When not to use

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Versions

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Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

• https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop/issues/190:

Issue gh:aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop#190: the reporter asked: Issue aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop#190 (closed, 5 comments): The jupyter notebook provided in the lab does not work for deployment in us-east-1 region. Remove the item in the bold from the below code in the notebook cell to create S3 bucket for knowledgebase : # Create S3 bucket for knowledge base data source s3bucket = s3client.createbucket( Bucket=bucketname**, CreateBucketConfiguration={ 'LocationConstraint': regionname }** ) The verified answer was: [GAcharyaOS (reporter)]: us-east-1 is special: S3 rejects CreateBucketConfiguration with a LocationConstraint there, so delete the CreateBucketConfiguration={ 'LocationConstraint': regionname } argument from the createbucket call. Every other region works with the existing code. If you want one snippet that works in all regions, set the region on the client instead: s3client = boto3.client('s3', regionname=region_name). Evidence thread: https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-workshop/issues/190