Invalid availability zone: [us-east-1d]

running: bees up -s 4 -g public -k mykey but I get:

Connecting to the hive.
Attempting to call up 4 bees.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/bees", line 5, in <module>
    main.main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/beeswithmachineguns/main.py", line 127, in main
    parse_options()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/beeswithmachineguns/main.py", line 111, in parse_options
    bees.up(options.servers, options.group, options.zone, options.instance, options.login, options.key)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/beeswithmachineguns/bees.py", line 104, in up
    placement=zone)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/ec2/connection.py", line 618, in run_instances
    return self.get_object('RunInstances', params, Reservation, verb='POST')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/connection.py", line 699, in get_object
    raise self.ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body)
boto.exception.EC2ResponseError: EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response><Errors><Error><Code>InvalidParameterValue</Code><Message>Invalid availability zone: [us-east-1d]</Message></Error></Errors><RequestID>7d01a404-48c7-4147-9774-f93c993e6b7a</RequestID></Response>

[anklos]

@analytically @germs12 I went into the same issue, I was using the zone ap-southeast-2a

I solved it by doing:

First add region config into .boto

[Credentials]
xxx
xxx
[Boto]
ec2_region_name = ap-southeast-2
ec2_region_endpoint = ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com

Then in the command you include the zone from the region you configured. For me, it is -z ap-southeast-2a

[ahmaddanni]

Done, thanks @mfrederickson