title: NoSuchBucket error when running Kubernetes on AWS
body: <p>Downloaded Kubernetes 1.1.8 from: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/download/v1.1.8/kubernetes.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/download/v1.1.8/kubernetes.tar.gz</a></p>
  
  <p>Followed the instructions at:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md</a></p>
  
  <p>And got the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>kubernetes-1.1.8 &gt; ./kubernetes/cluster/kube-up.sh 
  ... Starting cluster using provider: aws
  ... calling verify-prereqs
  ... calling kube-up
  Starting cluster using os distro: vivid
  Uploading to Amazon S3
  Creating kubernetes-staging-0eaf81fbc51209dd47c13b6d8b424149
  make_bucket: s3://kubernetes-staging-0eaf81fbc51209dd47c13b6d8b424149/
  
  A client error (NoSuchBucket) occurred when calling the GetBucketLocation operation: The specified bucket does not exist
  +++ Staging server tars to S3 Storage: kubernetes-staging-0eaf81fbc51209dd47c13b6d8b424149/devel
  usage: aws [options] &lt;command&gt; &lt;subcommand&gt; [&lt;subcommand&gt; ...] [parameters]
  To see help text, you can run:
  
    aws help
    aws &lt;command&gt; help
    aws &lt;command&gt; &lt;subcommand&gt; help
  aws: error: argument --region: expected one argument
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>AWS Console showed that the bucket was created but was empty.</p>