ElasticMapReduce: Specified Availability Zone is not supported

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I tried to use EMR in Oregon region so I used "us-west-2" as availability zone in run_job_flow and I got the following error:

Error response for action RunJobFlow: Sender/ValidationError; Specified Availability Zone is not supported
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"us-west-2" is the name of a region and NOT the name of an availability zone.

Use either "us-west-2a" or "us-west-2b"