Add missing `x-amz-content-sha256` header when generating headers for…

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… s3 authorization.

Also adds the ability to configure the AWS region when pulling from S3. For back-compat, the code defaults to the original hardcoded us-east-1 value.

Closes #518

Fixes Issue

Fixes #518

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