Queue mode: missing AWS_REGION attempts to lookup sqs.queue.amazonaws.com and fails

[james-callahan]

If I don't set the AWS_REGION environment variable, then the server fails to start with:

RequestError: send request failed\ncaused by: Post \"https://sqs.queue.amazonaws.com/\": dial tcp: lookup sqs.queue.amazonaws.com on 172.20.0.10:53: no such host

This is despite the logs on startup showing me the correct queue-url (partially redacted):

queue-url: https://us-west-2.queue.amazonaws.com/MY_ACCOUNT_ID/node-termination, 

I've worked around this for now by setting AWS_PROFILE=us-west-2, but I shouldn't have to.

[bwagner5]

Agreed, we will look into this and get to the bottom of it! Thanks for submitting the issue :)

[james-callahan]

@jillmon I dont' this should be of type question, it's more of a bug; or if intentional (unlikely), it's an enhancement request.

[bwagner5]

I've submitted a PR to fix the region detection within an SQS queue url if no region was specified. I think it should still be a best practice to set AWS_REGION just to be a little more explicit about it. I wouldn't expect SQS queue-urls to change much, but they could.

[bwagner5]

released