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

This proved a little tricky for me to solve.

Using the information from souvikc above: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45853793/1279002

and

here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55255504/1279002

I came up with (I'll take the hard coded region out eventually but just elated it finally works!):

@Configuration
@EnableContextInstanceData
@EnableSqs
@Profile("!local")
@Slf4j
public class AwsEc2Config {

    @Bean
    public RegionProvider regionProvider() {
        return new StaticRegionProvider("eu-west-1");
    }

    @Bean
    public SimpleMessageListenerContainerFactory simpleMessageListenerContainerFactory(AmazonSQSAsync amazonSQS) {
        SimpleMessageListenerContainerFactory factory = new SimpleMessageListenerContainerFactory();
        factory.setAmazonSqs(amazonSQS);
        factory.setMaxNumberOfMessages(10);
        factory.setAutoStartup(true);
        factory.setWaitTimeOut(20);

        return factory;
    }
}