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

Found the Issue. I was using spring-cloud-starter-aws-messaging for SQS messaging. The above dependency includes many Auto Detect classes which eventually was firing up even if they were not required.

Instead I have used spring-cloud-aws-messaging which solved the issue along with many other auto detect issues.