diff --git a/hive/gateway/ec2.go b/hive/gateway/ec2.go
index 396685b7d..af9d06e7b 100644
--- a/hive/gateway/ec2.go
+++ b/hive/gateway/ec2.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	gateway_ec2_image "github.com/mulgadc/hive/hive/gateway/ec2/image"
 	gateway_ec2_instance "github.com/mulgadc/hive/hive/gateway/ec2/instance"
 	gateway_ec2_key "github.com/mulgadc/hive/hive/gateway/ec2/key"
+	gateway_ec2_regions "github.com/mulgadc/hive/hive/gateway/ec2/regions"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/hive/hive/utils"
 )
 
@@ -276,6 +277,27 @@ func (gw *GatewayConfig) EC2_Request(ctx *fiber.Ctx) error {
 		payload := utils.GenerateXMLPayload("DescribeImagesResponse", output)
 		xmlOutput, err = utils.MarshalToXML(payload)
 
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.New("failed to marshal response to XML")
+		}
+	case "DescribeRegions":
+		var input = &ec2.DescribeRegionsInput{}
+		err = awsec2query.QueryParamsToStruct(queryArgs, input)
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		output, err := gateway_ec2_regions.DescribeRegions(input, gw.Region)
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		// Convert to XML
+		payload := utils.GenerateXMLPayload("DescribeRegionsResponse", output)
+		xmlOutput, err = utils.MarshalToXML(payload)
+
 		if err != nil {
 			return errors.New("failed to marshal response to XML")
 		}
diff --git a/hive/gateway/ec2/regions/DescribeRegions.go b/hive/gateway/ec2/regions/DescribeRegions.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c6f05d2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hive/gateway/ec2/regions/DescribeRegions.go
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package gateway_ec2_regions
+
+import (
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
+)
+
+// uses the loaded config file to get the region.
+func DescribeRegions(input *ec2.DescribeRegionsInput, region string) (output *ec2.DescribeRegionsOutput, err error) {
+
+	output = &ec2.DescribeRegionsOutput{
+		Regions: []*ec2.Region{
+			{
+				RegionName: aws.String(region),
+			},
+		}}
+
+	return output, nil
+}
diff --git a/hive/gateway/gateway.go b/hive/gateway/gateway.go
index abddad90c..2788d81a8 100644
--- a/hive/gateway/gateway.go
+++ b/hive/gateway/gateway.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ type GatewayConfig struct {
 	NATSConn       *nats.Conn // Shared NATS connection for service communication
 	Config         string     // Shared AWS Gateway config for S3 auth
 	ExpectedNodes  int        // Number of expected hive nodes for multi-node operations
+	Region         string     // Region this gateway is running in
 }
 
 var supportedServices = map[string]bool{
diff --git a/hive/services/awsgw/awsgw.go b/hive/services/awsgw/awsgw.go
index 222844784..957620663 100644
--- a/hive/services/awsgw/awsgw.go
+++ b/hive/services/awsgw/awsgw.go
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ func launchService(config *config.ClusterConfig) (err error) {
 		DisableLogging: false,
 		NATSConn:       natsConn,
 		Config:         nodeConfig.AWSGW.Config,
+		Region:         nodeConfig.Region,
 	}
 
 	app := gw.SetupRoutes()