S3 bucket cannot be created if region is set

I’m trying to get Lambda@Edge working with Cloudfront in CDK. To make things easy, I was hoping that I could override my default region (us-west-2) for my whole stack so that the Lambda would be deployed in us-east-1, as required by Lambda@Edge functions.

However, when I set the region as a prop, the S3 bucket creation fails with status code 400.

If I remove the region property, the bucket is created without a problem.

Reproduction Steps

export abstract class ExampleStack extends Stack {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props) {
    super(scope, id, {
      env: {
        region: "us-east-1",
      },
    });
	
	new Bucket(this, "MyBucket", {
	  bucketName: 'somesuch-bucket-foobar',
    }
  }
}

Error Log

 1/3 | 3:21:58 PM | CREATE_FAILED        | AWS::S3::Bucket    | Bucket (Bucket83908E77) Bad Request (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 400; Error Code: 400 Bad Request; Request ID: 0FB9C10A83924370; S3 Extended Request ID: Vr8/8sYPDksJgYQ1IaFbpAA32xHSCohJnyXGoVjAOo1Z6gsQ5eHGNmQ06sEfsi6WaC3Y/1IcNfo=)

Environment

• CLI Version : 1.27.0 (build a98c0b3)
• Framework Version: 1.27.0
• OS : macOS
• Language : en-us

Other

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This is 🐛 Bug Report

[blimmer]

Hey @iliapolo - thanks for checking back in. Yep, I think we’re good to close this.

For future travelers, if you run into this, a few things to try:

1. Are you trying to recreate an s3 bucket in a new region, after you deleted a bucket with the same name from another region? If so, that can cause the 400 status code. I couldn’t find official documentation on this, but it seems like the name is “released” for the bucket to be recreated in a new region 24 hours after it’s deleted in the old region.

2. From the docs, it looks like you should pass the account number and and the region if you try to specify a region in the env param.

[ansman]

Same here, I had the exact same experience as @J-Swift. I spent 2 hours try to debug this. Perhaps if the error message could be included instead of just the code this would be easier to debug.