{"issue":{"state":"open","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"html_url":null,"patch_url":null},"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ca71042d9d6724f4cbc2598195662eb0?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"ca71042d9d6724f4cbc2598195662eb0","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ztane","login":"ztane","id":704200},"milestone":null,"assignee":null,"updated_at":"2011-11-08T13:36:20Z","labels":[],"comments":0,"closed_at":null,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/boto/boto/issues/391","body":"Currently boto.ec2.connection.EC2Connection defaults to using us-east-1 if no region is specified. It would be more coder friendly, if it instead used the value of EC2_REGION environment variable as a last resort where available.","html_url":"https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/391","title":"Use EC2_REGION environment variable in boto if region is not set explicitly","number":391,"id":2174214,"created_at":"2011-11-08T13:36:20Z"},"action":"opened"}