From f05fdde48ba103200a0dbb5cd5e60e865949bdf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Nelson <daniel@wavesofdawn.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:07:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove the startup authentication check from the cloudwatch
 output (#4695)

---
 plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go | 14 --------------
 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go b/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
index d3bd66303..b5dca364e 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/cloudwatch"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/sts"
 
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	internalaws "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config/aws"
@@ -209,20 +208,7 @@ func (c *CloudWatch) Connect() error {
 		EndpointURL: c.EndpointURL,
 	}
 	configProvider := credentialConfig.Credentials()
-
-	stsService := sts.New(configProvider)
-
-	params := &sts.GetCallerIdentityInput{}
-
-	_, err := stsService.GetCallerIdentity(params)
-
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("E! cloudwatch: Cannot use credentials to connect to AWS : %+v \n", err.Error())
-		return err
-	}
-
 	c.svc = cloudwatch.New(configProvider)
-
 	return nil
 }