There's nothing in the instructions about connecting to EC2, also why is it trying to connect to eu-west-1 when I haven't specified the region?

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[warn] c.g.AppIdentity$ - Failed to get instance id from ec2 metadata service: Unable to contact EC2 metadata service.
software.amazon.awssdk.core.exception.SdkClientException: Unable to contact EC2 metadata service.
at software.amazon.awssdk.core.exception.SdkClientException$BuilderImpl.build(SdkClientException.java:98)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:400)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:432)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:432)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:432)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getData(EC2MetadataUtils.java:378)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getData(EC2MetadataUtils.java:374)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.fetchData(EC2MetadataUtils.java:472)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.fetchData(EC2MetadataUtils.java:462)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getInstanceId(EC2MetadataUtils.java:140)
[info] c.g.AppIdentity$ - Detected the following AppIdentity: DevIdentity(typerighter-checker)
[info] c.g.c.ConfigurationLoader$ - Fetching configuration for DevIdentity(typerighter-checker)
[error] c.g.AppIdentity$ - Failed to identify the regionName of the instance
software.amazon.awssdk.core.exception.SdkClientException: Unable to contact EC2 metadata service.
at software.amazon.awssdk.core.exception.SdkClientException$BuilderImpl.build(SdkClientException.java:98)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:400)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:432)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:432)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getItems(EC2MetadataUtils.java:432)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getData(EC2MetadataUtils.java:378)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getData(EC2MetadataUtils.java:374)
at software.amazon.awssdk.regions.internal.util.EC2MetadataUtils.getEC2InstanceRegion(EC2MetadataUtils.java:287)
at com.gu.AppIdentity$.$anonfun$region$2(AppIdentity.scala:107)
at scala.util.Try$.apply(Try.scala:213)
[info] c.g.c.SSMConfigurationLocation - Attempting to load configuration from SSM for path = /DEV/flexible/typerighter-checker and region = eu-west-1