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 had the same issue and I was able to prevent spring cloud aws from auto configuring the region by adding this exclude on the Spring configuration.

    @SpringBootApplication(exclude = ContextRegionProviderAutoConfiguration.class)