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# Using the AWS CLI and API operations on Snowball Edge device
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When using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or API operations to issue IAM, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 commands on Snowball Edge, you must specify the `region` as "`snow`." You can do this using `AWS configure` or within the command itself, as in the following examples.

```
aws configure --profile ProfileName
AWS Access Key ID [None]: defgh
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: 1234567
Default region name [None]: snow
Default output format [None]: json
```

Or

```
aws s3 ls --endpoint http://192.0.2.0:8080 --region snow --profile ProfileName
```