default behavior for configuration #18
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When specifying the sigv4 authentication via the configuration file results in exception if the region name is not provided. This is a different default behavior than the programmatic instantiation. The following change will attempt to read the aws region from the environment variables/aws sdk configuration if no region is specified.
Description of changes:
passes null if region is not found in the configuration
new test using configuration
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