Disable Cloudformation in Spring Cloud AWS

Question

How can I disable the Cloudformation in a spring boot app that using spring cloud AWS?

I keep getting this error when running my app on amazon:

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Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.cloud.aws.core.env.stack.config.StackResourceRegistryFactoryBean]: Factory method 'stackResourceRegistryFactoryBean' threw exception; nested exception is com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException: Stack for i-b5ce9e32 does not exist (Service: AmazonCloudFormation; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ValidationError; Request ID: 75b3076a-176d-11e6-90cc-b55a643dc6d6)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:189)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:588)
        ... 82 more
Caused by: com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException: Stack for i-b5ce9e32 does not exist (Service: AmazonCloudFormation; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ValidationError; Request ID: 75b3076a-176d-11e6-90cc-b55a643dc6d6)
        at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.handleErrorResponse(AmazonHttpClient.java:1389)
        at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeOneRequest(AmazonHttpClient.java:902)
        at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeHelper(AmazonHttpClient.ja
...

I doesn't want to use cloudformation. (At least for now.)

Answer 1

I have the following line in my application.properties (spring boot) file

cloud.aws.stack.auto=false

Official documentation: 4.5. CloudFormation configuration in Spring Boot