diff --git a/aws/sdk/integration-tests/telemetry/tests/spans.rs b/aws/sdk/integration-tests/telemetry/tests/spans.rs
index eac6c17acaf3c3d7700cfdc814b031494c3eb8ff..d4ddc39c9b44ca9b17a04a42ab9c460da0a54a5e 100644
--- a/aws/sdk/integration-tests/telemetry/tests/spans.rs
+++ b/aws/sdk/integration-tests/telemetry/tests/spans.rs
@@ -224,7 +224,11 @@ async fn config_spans_emitted() {
     build_profile_token_provider.assert();
 }
 
+// NOTE: this test is being temporarily ignored since, although it succeeds both locally and in the
+// GitHub CI, it fails in our CodeBuild CI, likely because CodeBuild runs on EC2 so IMDS is present
+// and causes different behavior.
 #[tokio::test]
+#[ignore]
 async fn region_spans_emitted() {
     let assertion_registry = AssertionRegistry::default();
     let base_subscriber = tracing_subscriber::Registry::default();