diff --git a/aws/aws-inventory2.sh b/aws/aws-inventory2.sh
index 8741d9d..2a49984 100755
--- a/aws/aws-inventory2.sh
+++ b/aws/aws-inventory2.sh
@@ -2,42 +2,44 @@
 
 
 function list-resources-in-region {
-	export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$1
 	echo "---" 
 	echo "# Region: $1"
 	echo "---" 
 	echo -e "\n## EC2:"
-	aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId, Tags[?Key==`Name`].Value[] | [0], PlatformDetails, InstanceType,PrivateIpAddress]' --output json | jq -cr '.[][] | @tsv' | tr -d '[\" '  
+	aws --region=$1 ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId, Tags[?Key==`Name`].Value[] | [0], PlatformDetails, InstanceType,PrivateIpAddress]' --output json | jq -cr '.[][] | @tsv' | tr -d '[\" '  
 
 	echo -e "\n## RDS:"
-	aws rds describe-db-instances --query 'DBInstances[*].[DBInstanceIdentifier, DBInstanceClass, Engine, AllocatedStorage]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
+	aws --region=$1 rds describe-db-instances --query 'DBInstances[*].[DBInstanceIdentifier, DBInstanceClass, Engine, AllocatedStorage]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
 
 	echo -e "\n## ElastiCache:"
-	aws elasticache describe-cache-clusters --query 'CacheClusters[*].[CacheClusterId, CacheNodeType, Engine, EngineVersion]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
+	aws --region=$1 elasticache describe-cache-clusters --query 'CacheClusters[*].[CacheClusterId, CacheNodeType, Engine, EngineVersion]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
 
 	echo -e "\n## ELB:"
-	aws elb describe-load-balancers --query 'LoadBalancerDescriptions[*].[LoadBalancerName,DNSName,Scheme]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \" 
+	aws --region=$1 elb describe-load-balancers --query 'LoadBalancerDescriptions[*].[LoadBalancerName,DNSName,Scheme]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \" 
 
 	echo -e "\n## ALB:"
-	aws elbv2 describe-load-balancers --query 'LoadBalancers[*].[LoadBalancerName,DNSName,Scheme]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
+	aws --region=$1 elbv2 describe-load-balancers --query 'LoadBalancers[*].[LoadBalancerName,DNSName,Scheme]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
 
 	echo -e "\n## VPC:"
-	aws ec2 describe-vpcs --query 'Vpcs[*].[VpcId, CidrBlock]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
-
-	echo -e "\n## S3_Buckets:"
-	aws s3api list-buckets --output text | awk '{print $NF}'
+	aws --region=$1 ec2 describe-vpcs --query 'Vpcs[*].[VpcId, CidrBlock]' --output json | jq -cr '.[]|@tsv' | tr -d \"
 
 	echo -e "\n## ECS_Clusters:"
-	aws ecs list-clusters | jq -cr '.[][]' | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'
+	aws --region=$1 ecs list-clusters | jq -cr '.[][]' | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'
 
 	echo -e "\n## EKS_Clusters:"
-	aws eks list-clusters | jq '.[][]' | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'
+	aws --region=$1 eks list-clusters | jq '.[][]' | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'
 
-	echo -e "\n## Cloudfront:"
-	aws cloudfront list-distributions --query 'DistributionList.Items[*].[DomainName]' --output text 
+	# global resources
+	if [ $1 == "us-east-1" ]; then
+		echo -e "\n## Route53_zones:"
+		aws --region=$1 --no-cli-pager route53 list-hosted-zones --query 'HostedZones[].Name' --output text | tr '\t' '\n'
 
-	echo -e "\n## Route53_zones:"
-	aws --no-cli-pager route53 list-hosted-zones --query 'HostedZones[].Name' --output text
+		echo -e "\n## S3_Buckets:"
+        	aws --region=$1 s3api list-buckets --output text | awk '{print $NF}'
+
+		echo -e "\n## Cloudfront:"
+        	aws --region=$1 cloudfront list-distributions --query 'DistributionList.Items[*].[DomainName]' --output text
+	fi
 } 
 
 # Generate inventory of ec2, rds, lb, and s3 buckets.