Trying to connect to AWS Kinesis from boto.kinesis; us-west-1 doesn't work, but other regions do

Question

I'm using boto to connect to ASW Kinesis. For some reason, the connections to "us-west-2" and "us-east-1" work, but not for "us-west-1":

from boto import kinesis

con = kinesis.connect_to_region("us-west-1")
print con  # None

con = kinesis.connect_to_region("us-west-2")
print con  # KinesisConnection:kinesis.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

con = kinesis.connect_to_region("us-east-1")
print con  # KinesisConnection:kinesis.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

The credentials are stored in the ~/.boto file.

Does anyone have an idea of what's wrong?

Answer 1

It looks like boto has not yet been updated to support that new Kinesis endpoint. If you look in your boto distribution, there is a file called endpoints.json and it contains information about which services are available in which regions. It currently does not list the us-west-1 region for the Kinesis service.

You could manually add it to your distribution or you could create an issue with the boto project.