Quickstart - Tutorial assumes you're using us-east-1

[peter-smith-phd]

This whole tutorial makes the assumption that you're running awslocal targeted at us-east-1. However, my .aws/config points to ca-west-1 and therefore the application didn't work properly. I had to explicitly do export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1 in my shell before running any of the awslocal commands (even AWS_REGION didn't work).