Unable to load AWS credentials from any provider in the chain Spring Cloud Stream Kinesis binder

I am not able to connect to AWS kinesis in Spring Cloud Stream Kinesis binder (1.2.0.RELEASE) without using the default configuration at the system level. Only if the system has already been configured to use the default profile and the access key id and secret access key are set with the [default] profile the application works. Otherwise, it is not able to connect to AWS resources by throwing this exception:

Caused by: com.amazonaws.SdkClientException: Unable to load AWS credentials from any provider in the chain: [com.amazonaws.auth.EC2ContainerCredentialsProviderWrapper@3b2c8bda: Unable to load credentials from service endpoint, com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfileCredentialsProvider@688d619c: No AWS profile named 'default']
    at com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentialsProviderChain.getCredentials(AWSCredentialsProviderChain.java:136)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.getCredentialsFromContext(AmazonHttpClient.java:1225)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.runBeforeRequestHandlers(AmazonHttpClient.java:801)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.doExecute(AmazonHttpClient.java:751)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.executeWithTimer(AmazonHttpClient.java:744)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:726)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutor.access$500(AmazonHttpClient.java:686)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient$RequestExecutionBuilderImpl.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:668)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:532)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:512)
    at com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.AmazonDynamoDBClient.doInvoke(AmazonDynamoDBClient.java:3768)
    at com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.AmazonDynamoDBClient.invoke(AmazonDynamoDBClient.java:3737)
    at com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.AmazonDynamoDBClient.executeDescribeTable(AmazonDynamoDBClient.java:1836)
    at com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.AmazonDynamoDBClient.describeTable(AmazonDynamoDBClient.java:1804)
    at com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.document.Table.describe(Table.java:137)
    at org.springframework.integration.aws.metadata.DynamoDbMetadataStore.afterPropertiesSet(DynamoDbMetadataStore.java:145)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1837)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1774)

I have tried the following options and none of them worked for me:

• Set environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• Set Java system properties aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey
• Set cloud.aws.credentials.accessKey and cloud.aws.credentials.secretKey in the application.yml file.

It appears that for some reason the AWSCredentialProvider bean has been loaded incorrectly, so I was able to address this issue temporarily by setting the following bean. It's not a right fix, but it did unblock my work:

@Configuration
public class AWSCredentialProvider {
  @Value("${aws.access-key}")
  protected String accessKey;

  @Value("${aws.secret-key}")
  protected String secretKey;

  @Bean
  @Primary
  public AWSCredentialsProvider buildAWSCredentialsProvider() {
    AWSCredentials awsCredentials = new BasicAWSCredentials(accessKey, secretKey);
    return new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(awsCredentials);
  }
}