related to my previous question on having flows across AWS regions sharing the same metadata service, I am now using the metaflow metadata client to retrieve flow information and running into a strange bug: with the same metaflow config and version, same boto3 and aws config, one computer is able to retrieve artifacts from a different region, while another computer times-out with

An error occurred (IllegalLocationConstraintException) when calling the GetObject operation: The x-central-1 location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to.