I use the following Maven dependency which autoconfigures all necessary parameters to make my project work on AWS:
<dependency>     <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>     <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-aws</artifactId>     <version>1.2.2.RELEASE</version> </dependency>   I don't have any critical functionality depending on AWS though, it's just to load a few files from S3 at runtime. So during local development (and also testing), I don't need any AWS autoconfiguration.
The logical error I get when running locally is:
... Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: There is no EC2 meta data available, because the application is not running in the EC2 environment. Region detection is only possible if the application is running on a EC2 instance     at org.springframework.util.Assert.state(Assert.java:392) ~[spring-core-4.3.2.RELEASE.jar:4.3.2.RELEASE]     at org.springframework.cloud.aws.core.region.Ec2MetadataRegionProvider.getRegion(Ec2MetadataRegionProvider.java:39) ~[spring-cloud-aws-core-1.2.2.RELEASE.jar:1.2.2.RELEASE]     at org.springframework.cloud.aws.core.config.AmazonWebserviceClientFactoryBean.createInstance(AmazonWebserviceClientFactoryBean.java:98) ~[spring-cloud-aws-core-1.2.2.RELEASE.jar:1.2.2.RELEASE]     at org.springframework.cloud.aws.core.config.AmazonWebserviceClientFactoryBean.createInstance(AmazonWebserviceClientFactoryBean.java:44) ~[spring-cloud-aws-core-1.2.2.RELEASE.jar:1.2.2.RELEASE] ...   Is there a clean, working solution for both testing and local development?