BucketRegionError: incorrect region, the bucket is not in 'eu-west-2' - terraform

Question

I need terraform to access my S3 bucket, but it is not able to find the bucket on the specified region.

My main.tf:

provider "aws" {
    region = "eu-west-2"
}

terraform {
    backend "s3" {
        bucket = "xyz-state-blog"
        key    = "dev/terraform"
        region = "eu-west-2"
    }
}

locals {
    azs                     = ["eu-west-2a", "eu-west-2b", "eu-west-2c"]
    environment             = "dev"
    kops_state_bucket_name  = "${local.environment}-kops-state"
    // Needs to be a FQDN
    kubernetes_cluster_name = "k8s-dev0.domain.com"
    ingress_ips             = ["10.0.0.100/32", "10.0.0.101/32"]
    vpc_name                = "${local.environment}-vpc"

    tags = {
        environment = "${local.environment}"
        terraform   = true
    }
}

data "aws_region" "current" {}

following is the error which I'm getting on terraform init command:

Error inspecting states in the "s3" backend:
BucketRegionError: incorrect region, the bucket is not in 'eu-west-2' region
  status code: 301, request id: , host id:

Answer 1

For me removing the .terraform folder and trying terraform init again solved the region related issue for me.

Answer 2

no need to remove the whole .terraform folder:

1. find your .terraform/terraform.tfstate
2. remove json object responsible for S3 bucket
3. remove the stanza generating remote backend
4. run terraform init & enjoy

error is appearing apparently because there's no S3 bucket created to sync with.