{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform/issues/836","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform/issues/836/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform/issues/836/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform/issues/836/events","html_url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/836","id":54708654,"number":836,"title":"AWS: eu-central-1 and cn-north-1 requires signature version 4 to sign AWS query API requests","user":{"login":"ceh","id":248952,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/248952?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh","html_url":"https://github.com/ceh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ceh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"f7c6c7"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform/labels/provider/aws","name":"provider/aws","color":"bfdadc"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-01-18T20:20:20Z","updated_at":"2015-03-12T16:03:06Z","closed_at":"2015-03-12T16:03:06Z","body":"As already mentioned in #525, `eu-central-1` (EU Frankfurt) and `cn-north-1` (China Beijing) requires signature version 4 to sign AWS query API requests.\r\n\r\ngoamz does not support signature version 4: mitchellh/goamz#120\r\n\r\nHence, Terraform cannot talk to `eu-central-1`, nor `cn-north-1`.\r\n\r\nSee also http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-2.html"}}