Aws.yml regions specification not downloading global resources

When I specify regions in aws.yml, does it also download resources that are global?

While resources may be global, all resources have credentials scoped to specific regions because all authenticated API calls are scoped to a specific region, which is part of the AWS SigV4 spec. We use that region as the owner of the resource. For most global resources, it will be us-east-1.

The file that defines what region each service can accept signed requests from can be found here: partition_service_region.json.

So to answer your question more directly, the answer is no, global resources are not included unless the region that owns them is specified.