Problem scenario
You run a "kops" command but you receive this error:
"unable to infer CloudProvider from Zones (is there a typo in --zones?)"
How do you get the "kops" command to work?
Solution
There is a value and a format that are necessary for your kops' "--zones" flag.
Determine what region you want to know the zone name for (e.g., us-west-9). Run this command but substitute us-west-9 with your region of choice:
aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region us-west-9 | grep ZoneName
The results will be possible choices for you to use as the "zones=" value. Use one of the "ZoneName" values in your "kops" command. The problem should go away.