Support Automatic Region Validation for me-south-1 (Middle East (Bahrain))

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Description

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-the-new-aws-middle-east--bahrain--region-/

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the immediate availability of the Middle East (Bahrain) Region, which is the first AWS Region in the Middle East and consists of three Availability Zones.

The region shorthand name is me-south-1

Potential Terraform Configuration

provider "aws" {
  region = "me-south-1"
}

References

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/announcing-the-new-aws-middle-east--bahrain--region-/
• https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#Release-v1217-2019-07-29
• Update module aws/aws-sdk-go to v1.21.7 #9538

[bflad]

Support for automatic validation of this new region has been merged and will release with version 2.22.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider, later this week.

On a build of the provider with the update:

provider "aws" {
  region = "me-south-1"
}

data "aws_region" "current" {}

output "region" {
  value = data.aws_region.current.name
}

Outputs:

$ terraform apply
data.aws_region.current: Refreshing state...

Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

region = me-south-1

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Please note that this new region requires the same manual process to enable it as ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) did. This process is outlined in the announcement for that region. Once enabled in the console, it takes a few minutes for everything to work properly.

If the region is not enabled properly, or the enablement process is still in progress, you can receive errors like these:

$ terraform apply

Error: error validating provider credentials: error calling sts:GetCallerIdentity: InvalidClientTokenId: The security token included in the request is invalid.
	status code: 403, request id: 142f947b-b2c3-11e9-9959-c11ab17bcc63

  on main.tf line 1, in provider "aws":
   1: provider "aws" {

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To use this new region before Terraform AWS Provider version 2.22.0, you must disable the provider's automatic region validation via:

provider "aws" {
  # ... potentially other configuration ...

  region                 = "me-south-1"
  skip_region_validation = true
}

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This has been released in version 2.22.0 of the Terraform AWS provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

For further feature requests or bug reports with this functionality, please create a new GitHub issue following the template for triage. Thanks!

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