is chime identity only available in us-east-1?

Question

I tried to create a chime app instance in my region (ap-northeast-1) and got the following response.

```
aws chime-sdk-identity create-app-instance --name my-chime

Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://identity-chime.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com/app-instances"
```

I tried it for `ap-northeast-1` and `ap-southeast-1` and got similar response.

However, when I did it for `us-east-1` it went thru and created an app instance.

So, my question is which region is app instance available? I really wish to run it in my own region (ap-northeast-2)

Thanks!

Accepted Answer

The chime-sdk-identity namespace is used for the SDK's messaging features. Unfortunately, Amazon Chime SDK *messaging* is not available in ap-northeast-2.

The other answer does refer to the correct article for region availability: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/dg/sdk-available-regions.html. But, if you scroll down to the **Messaging Regions** section of that document, you'll see that the messaging APIs (of which "identity" is a part) are only available in us-east-1 and eu-central-1. You'll need to choose between those two.

Other features of the SDK like meetings/media/PSTN support different regions.

Answer

According to said documentation it is supported. 
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/dg/sdk-available-regions.html

I see your using the CLi to activate this. Are you trying this from cloushell, EC2 or local machine?

Seems the cli is unable to contact the endpoint required. If from an ec2 ensure it can access the private endpoint or has access to the internet.

is chime identity only available in us-east-1?

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