# Default AWS Region

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/default-aws-region/5557>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [August 24, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/default-aws-region/5557 "2018-08-24T15:55:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://forum.serverless.com/u/dave)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/default-aws-region/5557/1 "2018-08-24T15:55:54Z")

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Hi,

Im fairly new to Serverless, so apologies if this is a dumb question.

I’ve got the AWS cli set up to use a specific region (eu-west-2) as my default region. When I deploy with Serverless though, it defaults to us-east-1 if I don’t specify the region within the serverless.yml file.

If I specify the region to deploy to in my serverless.yml, it does deploy to the specified region.

Is this expected? Does Serverless ignore the default region specified by my AWS configuration if I don’t specify one in serverless.yml and always default to us-east-1?

Thanks,

Dave.

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**Author:** ![buggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/buggy/32/177_2.png) [@buggy](https://forum.serverless.com/u/buggy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/default-aws-region/5557/2 "2018-08-26T02:36:58Z")

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> [@dave](#):
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> Is this expected?

Yes.

The default region for the Serverless Framework is `us-east-1` unless you override it in the `serverless.yml` or the command line during deployment.