Error You must specify a region when running command aws ecs list-container-instances

Question

I am trying to use aws container service as per the documentation in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ECS_GetStarted.html

The below error is th

Answer 1

I posted too soon however the ways to configure are given in below link

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html

and way to get access keys are given in below link

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html#cli-signup