Summary

Create an upstream issue and submit a fix for the current vector error thrown during configuration of AWS cloudwatch logs sink.

Acceptance Criteria

• Verify the submission is accepted an merged by the upstream community.
• Verify the release in which the contribution will be publicly available for consumption

Issue:

When using auth.credentials_file in Vector configuration of cloudwatch logs, the following error was encountered:

Invalid Configuration: Missing Region

Adding the region to the credentials file, vector config file, or ENV did not fix the issue.  Manually specifying the region in the Vector configuration was also ineffective.

Solution:

The aws auth.rs file in Vector was modified to properly pass the region when using credentials from a file.

https://github.com/cahartma/vector/tree/release-6.1-aws-region-for-credentials-path

Image:  https://quay.io/cahartma/vector:v0.37.1-aws