diff --git a/adapter.js b/adapter.js
index c83803d..8777498 100644
--- a/adapter.js
+++ b/adapter.js
@@ -39,13 +39,15 @@ const { prop, map, always, identity } = R
  */
 
 /**
- * @param {{ minio: any, bucketPrefix: string, useNamespacedBucket: boolean }} config
+ * @param {{ minio: any, bucketPrefix: string, region?: string, useNamespacedBucket: boolean }} config
  * @returns hyper storage terminating adapter impl
  */
 export default function (config) {
-  const { bucketPrefix, useNamespacedBucket, minio } = config
+  const { bucketPrefix, region, useNamespacedBucket, minio } = config
 
-  const lib = useNamespacedBucket ? Namespaced(bucketPrefix) : Multi(bucketPrefix)
+  const lib = useNamespacedBucket
+    ? Namespaced({ bucketPrefix, region })
+    : Multi({ bucketPrefix, region })
 
   const client = minioClientSchema.parse({
     makeBucket: lib.makeBucket(minio),
diff --git a/adapter.test.js b/adapter.test.js
index 0caf1de..6c45a8a 100644
--- a/adapter.test.js
+++ b/adapter.test.js
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Deno.test('adapter', async (t) => {
   const a = adapter({
     minio: happyMinio,
     bucketPrefix: 'test',
+    region: 'us-east-2',
     useNamespacedBucket: false,
   })
 
diff --git a/lib/multi.js b/lib/multi.js
index 9278abd..8d94c52 100644
--- a/lib/multi.js
+++ b/lib/multi.js
@@ -5,14 +5,28 @@ const { prop, map } = R
 
 export const createPrefix = (prefix) => (str) => `${prefix}-${str}`
 
-export const Multi = (bucketPrefix) => {
+export const Multi = ({ bucketPrefix, region }) => {
   if (!bucketPrefix) throw new Error('bucketPrefix is required')
 
   const bucketWithPrefix = createPrefix(bucketPrefix)
 
   const makeBucket = (minio) => {
     return asyncifyHandle((name) =>
-      minio.makeBucket(bucketWithPrefix(name)).catch((err) => {
+      /**
+       * When using with AWS s3 and coupled with the fact that LocationConstraint
+       * is not required _only_ for us-east-1 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_CreateBucketConfiguration.html),
+       * this can cause some hair-pulling gotchas when creating a bucket and not passing region -- the bucket will automatically
+       * be attempted to be created in us-east-1, REGARDLESS of whichever region used to instantiate the MinIO Client.
+       *
+       * So if you're using something like IAM to securely access s3, or a VPC Endpoint for s3 in a region that is _not_ us-east-1,
+       * you will simply get an opaque S3 AccessDenied error when creating the bucket -- your IAM Role might be constrained to only
+       * access, say us-east-2, or your VPC Endpoint is for s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com, and accessing us-east-1 out of the blue
+       * will simply produce a seemingly incoherent "AccessDenied". -_______-
+       *
+       * SO, we MUST pass region here that is provided to the adapter, to ensure the bucket is created in the desired region,
+       * and any credentials imbued by IAM or the VPC are used.
+       */
+      minio.makeBucket(bucketWithPrefix(name), region).catch((err) => {
         if (isBucketExistsErr(err)) throw HyperErr({ status: 409, msg: 'bucket already exists' })
         throw err // some other err
       })
diff --git a/lib/multi.test.js b/lib/multi.test.js
index e1ade66..a44e45a 100644
--- a/lib/multi.test.js
+++ b/lib/multi.test.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { Multi } from './multi.js'
 const { Async } = crocks
 
 Deno.test('Multi bucket minio client', async (t) => {
-  const multi = Multi('test')
+  const multi = Multi({ bucketPrefix: 'test', region: 'us-east-2' })
 
   await t.step('makeBucket', async (t) => {
     await t.step('it should resolve if the bucket is created successfully', () => {
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ Deno.test('Multi bucket minio client', async (t) => {
         .toPromise()
     })
 
+    await t.step('it should make the bucket in the region', () => {
+      return multi.makeBucket({
+        makeBucket: (_name, region) => {
+          assertEquals(region, 'us-east-2')
+          return Promise.resolve()
+        },
+      })('foo')
+        .toPromise()
+    })
+
     await t.step('it should throw a HyperErr if the bucket exists', () => {
       return multi.makeBucket({
         makeBucket: () => {
diff --git a/lib/namespaced.js b/lib/namespaced.js
index 8232d93..1695977 100644
--- a/lib/namespaced.js
+++ b/lib/namespaced.js
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ const checkNamespaceExists = (meta, name) => {
     ))
 }
 
-export const Namespaced = (bucketPrefix) => {
+export const Namespaced = ({ bucketPrefix, region }) => {
   if (!bucketPrefix) throw new Error('bucketPrefix is required')
 
-  const multi = Multi(bucketPrefix)
+  const multi = Multi({ bucketPrefix, region })
   /**
    * The single bucket used for all objects
    *
diff --git a/lib/namespaced.test.js b/lib/namespaced.test.js
index 18a0020..29bc542 100644
--- a/lib/namespaced.test.js
+++ b/lib/namespaced.test.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { Namespaced } from './namespaced.js'
 const { Async } = crocks
 
 Deno.test('Namespaced bucket minio client', async (t) => {
-  const namespaced = Namespaced('test')
+  const namespaced = Namespaced({ bucketPrefix: 'test', region: 'us-east-2' })
 
   const META = {
     createdAt: new Date().toJSON(),
diff --git a/mod.js b/mod.js
index 3ff44c9..2080d23 100644
--- a/mod.js
+++ b/mod.js
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ export default ({ url, region, bucketPrefix, useNamespacedBucket }) => {
     link: (config) => (_) => {
       return createAdapter({
         minio: config.minio,
+        region: config.region,
         bucketPrefix: config.bucketPrefix,
         useNamespacedBucket: config.useNamespacedBucket,
       })