Create Direct Connect private VIFs using 2 aws regions

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Hi Team,

I need to create 2 AWS VIFs using these 2 regions “eu-west-3” and “eu-central-1”. To try to achieve that I configured 2 providers using alias attribute.

provider “aws” {
alias = “eu-west-3”
region = “eu-west-3”
}

provider “aws” {
alias = “eu-central-1”
region = “eu-central-1”
}

Once identified the providers I created the resource block using alias.

resource “aws_dx_private_virtual_interface” “vif1” {
provider = aws.eu-west-3
connection_id = …
name = “…”
vlan = …
}

resource “aws_dx_private_virtual_interface” “vif2” {
provider = aws.eu-central-1
connection_id = …
name = “…”
vlan = …
}
After running this I got this output:

  • terraform plan
    provider.aws.region
    The region where AWS operations will take place. Examples
    are us-east-1, us-west-2, etc.

    Enter a value:

Even trying a value is not working.

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That is likely to be the default AWS provider instance. I generally use the default instance for one region (without an alias) and then only have a single alias for the alternate region.