diff --git a/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py b/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py
index 53b0690f9..90267bca7 100644
--- a/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py
+++ b/monkey/common/cloud/aws.py
@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ class AWS(object):
     def __init__(self):
         try:
             self.instance_id = urllib2.urlopen('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id').read()
+            self.region = urllib2.urlopen('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone').read()[:-1]
         except urllib2.URLError:
             self.instance_id = None
 
     def get_instance_id(self):
         return self.instance_id
 
+    def get_region(self):
+        return self.region
+
     def is_aws_instance(self):
         return self.instance_id is not None
diff --git a/monkey/monkey_island/cc/environment/aws.py b/monkey/monkey_island/cc/environment/aws.py
index e3c139e90..a004a2540 100644
--- a/monkey/monkey_island/cc/environment/aws.py
+++ b/monkey/monkey_island/cc/environment/aws.py
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ __author__ = 'itay.mizeretz'
 class AwsEnvironment(Environment):
     def __init__(self):
         super(AwsEnvironment, self).__init__()
-        self._instance_id = AwsEnvironment._get_instance_id()
+        self.aws_info = AWS()
+        self._instance_id = self._get_instance_id()
+        self.region = self._get_region()
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _get_instance_id():
-        return AWS.get_instance_id()
+    def _get_instance_id(self):
+        return self.aws_info.get_instance_id()
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _get_region():
-        return urllib2.urlopen('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone').read()[:-1]
+    def _get_region(self):
+        return self.aws_info.get_region()
 
     def is_auth_enabled(self):
         return True