Spring boot startup error for AWS application : There is not EC2 meta data available

Question

I am getting the below error when I am trying to run a Spring boot-AWS application locally :

There is not EC2 meta data available, because the application is

Answer 1

I was using springframework.cloud.aws.autoconfigure, got the same problem. The reason behind it is, we need to configure region manually when we run application in NON AWS ENVIRONMENT, ie. Local. So put this property in your application-local.properties and you should be good.

cloud.aws.region.static=us-east-1