Using aws account with us-west-2

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To use an AWS account with the `us-west-2` region in Pulumi, you would usually start by configuring your AWS provider with the desired region. In Pulumi, you can declare an AWS provider instance explicitly, and set the region property to `us-west-2`. This ensures that all the AWS resources you define in your Pulumi program will be provisioned in the `us-west-2` region unless specified otherwise.

Here's a detailed breakdown of a Pulumi TypeScript program that sets up an AWS provider for `us-west-2`:

1. The first part is importing the required modules from the Pulumi AWS package.
2. Next, we create a new instance of the AWS provider, specifying `us-west-2` as our region.
3. Finally, we would usually define some AWS resources (like an S3 bucket, an EC2 instance, etc.) using this configured provider. However, for the sake of this explanation, we will just set up the provider.

Below is the TypeScript program demonstrating this setup:

```typescript
import * as aws from '@pulumi/aws';

// Create an AWS provider configured for the us-west-2 region
const provider = new aws.Provider('us-west-2-provider', {
    region: 'us-west-2',
});

// Now you would use the `provider` variable whenever you create AWS resources, and they will be provisioned in the us-west-2 region.
// For example, creating an S3 bucket in the us-west-2 region would look like this:

const bucket = new aws.s3.Bucket('my-bucket', {
    // Add bucket configuration here
}, { provider }); // Pass the provider instance to ensure the bucket is created in us-west-2

// More AWS resources can be added here, each configured to use the `provider`.

// To export the name of the bucket
export const bucketName = bucket.id;

// When you deploy this program with `pulumi up`, Pulumi provisions resources in the `us-west-2` region using the AWS credentials configured in your environment.
```

**Remember**: To provision resources with AWS, you need to have your AWS credentials configured on your machine where you're running Pulumi. This can be set up using the AWS CLI and the `aws configure` command.

The above program is a starting point. Usually, you'd populate it with the specific resources you want to manage (like EC2 instances, S3 buckets, etc.). The `provider` instance is used to ensure these resources are created within the specified region, in this case, `us-west-2`.