Set the region on creating the Amazon SQS in C#

Question

I am very new in cloud computing world(including Amazon Web Service), so I have a very simple question:

• How do I set the region of a amazon sqs when I create it? The default region is "US-West (Northern California)".

Thanks!

Answer 1

There's a better way to do it now that uses the Amazon.RegionEndpoint class rather than using a url string. The Visual Studio intellisense will give you all the regions.

AmazonSQS sqs = AWSClientFactory.CreateAmazonSQSClient(RegionEndpoint.USWest2);

Also, you don't need to pass the appConfig["AWSAccessKey"] in the parameters as long as you have it defined in the app.config. It'll find it.