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page_title: "AWS: aws_region"
sidebar_current: "docs-aws-datasource-region"
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    Provides details about a specific service region
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# aws\_region

`aws_region` provides details about a specific AWS region.

As well as validating a given region name (and optionally obtaining its
endpoint) this resource can be used to discover the name of the region
configured within the provider. The latter can be useful in a child module
which is inheriting an AWS provider configuration from its parent module.

## Example Usage

The following example shows how the resource might be used to obtain
the name of the AWS region configured on the provider.

```hcl
data "aws_region" "current" {
  current = true
}
```

## Argument Reference

The arguments of this data source act as filters for querying the available
regions. The given filters must match exactly one region whose data will be
exported as attributes.

* `name` - (Optional) The full name of the region to select.

* `current` - (Optional) Set to `true` to match only the region configured
  in the provider. (It is not meaningful to set this to `false`.)

* `endpoint` - (Optional) The endpoint of the region to select.

At least one of the above attributes should be provided to ensure that only
one region is matched.

## Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

* `name` - The name of the selected region.

* `current` - `true` if the selected region is the one configured on the
  provider, or `false` otherwise.

* `endpoint` - The endpoint for the selected region.