From 86cb9432e126e3a1ea46d74c787b991adb2de829 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug-AWS <dougsch@amazon.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 07:28:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Expanded early info on using CLI to set creds/region

---
 docs/src/getting-started.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/src/getting-started.rst b/docs/src/getting-started.rst
index bc5f8fb955539..759a883861346 100644
--- a/docs/src/getting-started.rst
+++ b/docs/src/getting-started.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Prerequisites
 command-line toolkit and language bindings.
 
 `AWS CLI <https://aws.amazon.com/cli>`_ - recommended in general, and can be
-used to setup the :ref:`credentials <credentials>` for your AWS account.
+used to setup the credentials and region for your AWS account,
+which must be specified to use the toolkit.
+See :ref:`credentials <credentials>` for information on using the AWS CLI to set your credentials.
 
 Install the command-line toolkit
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