# Quicksight doesn't honour my default region set in AWS Unified Settings

**URL:** <https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-doesnt-honour-my-default-region-set-in-aws-unified-settings/9900>\
**Category:** Q&A\
**Tags:** error, quick-sight\
**Created:** [February 10, 2023, 11:21am UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-doesnt-honour-my-default-region-set-in-aws-unified-settings/9900 "2023-02-10T11:21:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ross\_Gerring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ross\_Gerring](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/Ross_Gerring)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 11:21am UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-doesnt-honour-my-default-region-set-in-aws-unified-settings/9900/1 "2023-02-10T11:21:35Z")

</div>

When I log into Quick Sight, it always defaults to N. Virginia as my region, despite that fact that my region is set to Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2 in Unified Settings (see [Choosing your Region - AWS Management Console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/select-region.html))

It’s irritating to have to keep changing it back to Sydney.

I’ve seen comments elsewhere that suggest that others are having a similar problem to me.

“Sadly AWS has a cache bug. It does not remember your default region, and will go to us-east1 every time. I have tried many things but to no avail.”  
source: [how to set default region for aws account | AWS re:Post](https://repost.aws/questions/QU5KQTFIHoQpGQk56ncYDFKg/how-to-set-default-region-for-aws-account) -

Any ideas how to solve?

Thx.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Max](https://d2orw1595917va.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.amazonquick.com/max/32/2288_2.png) [@Max](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/Max)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-doesnt-honour-my-default-region-set-in-aws-unified-settings/9900/2 "2023-02-10T14:44:44Z")

</div>

I’ll mark this as a bug and flag it for the team.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Max](https://d2orw1595917va.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.amazonquick.com/max/32/2288_2.png) [@Max](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/Max)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-doesnt-honour-my-default-region-set-in-aws-unified-settings/9900/3 "2023-02-13T14:28:06Z")

</div>