Unable to use Spring cloud to connect with AWS SES

Using the response of @Chris-Turner you can add a VM option to run your app locally:

-Dcloud.aws.stack.auto=false

You've almost got it, you're just missing one more configuration flag to stop that exception creeping in.

Add cloud.aws.stack.auto = false to your application.properties file thus it will not enable the automatic stack name detection for the application.

You can read up more about it in the docs: http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-aws/spring-cloud-aws.html#_cloudformation_configuration_in_spring_boot