To access a database on AWS, the following dependency is needed:
implementation('org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-aws-jdbc:2.2.4.RELEASE')As soon it is added to a Spring Boot project, it can not be started locally because it will throw exceptions like this one:
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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
...The solution is to provide some dummy parameters and force Spring to not load some configurations by providing the local run configuration with the following parameters:
cloud.aws.region.auto=false
cloud.aws.region.static=us-east-1
spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.cloud.aws.autoconfigure.context.ContextStackAutoConfigurationAlternatively, this can be added to application.yml:
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# AWS Settings
#
# Basically disable and mock AWS-related settings/code so that a local startup under profile "local" is possible.
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spring:
profiles: local, junit, default
autoconfigure:
exclude: org.springframework.cloud.aws.autoconfigure.context.ContextStackAutoConfiguration
cloud:
aws:
region:
auto: false
static: us-east-1
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