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I'm not sure if that works but just found the environment variable AWS_DEFAULT_REGION in terraform documentation: <https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs#environment-variables>

Hi <@U01BRSYUUDP>
Add this to the top of your code to replace the provider that you created:
```let aws = require("@pulumi/aws");
// Create an AWS provider for the us-east-2 region.
let useast2 = new aws.Provider("useast2", { region: "us-east-2" });```
Then where you have this:
``` { provider: this.provider }```
you can do this:
`{ providers: {aws: useast2} }`

replace useast2 with eu-west-1
<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#explicit-provider-configuration>

Can you try that and let us know?

```    const regionProvider = new aws.Provider(location, {
      region: location,
    });

    const vpc = new awsx.ec2.Vpc(
      name,
      {
        cidrBlock: '172.16.0.0/16',
        tags: { Name: name },
      },
      { provider: { aws: regionProvider } }
    );```
error:
```Type '{ aws: aws.Provider; }' is not assignable to type 'ProviderResource'.
  Object literal may only specify known properties, and 'aws' does not exist in type 'ProviderResource'.```

and location is `location: aws.Region,` which is a string

Can you try this testing the following? Change
```region: location```
in the const regionProvider section
to:
`region: "eu-west-1"`

or update the variable for location to:
const location = "eu-west-1"

that is not the issue, the issue is that { provider: { aws: regionProvider } } is invalid. provider needs to be a ProviderResource and a ProviderResource does not have a ‘aws’ key

however, this is the same as my first snippet

providerCredentialOpts is actually part of the EKS package

found a good solution, with naming the provider like the location, i just need to add the following to the cluster creation

```        providerCredentialOpts: {
          profileName: location,
        },```

<@U01BRSYUUDP> Awesome you got it working, i created this gist just in case you wanted to see what I had, since I have a StackReference for a vpc.  This is rough code: <https://gist.github.com/tusharshahrs/c9a6b58f1af47d2a5c7b9b4575cb4d1f>

yeah, that dod not compile for me, maybe i have different versions of the pulumi libs