diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1134-ec2_metadata_facts-AttributeError.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1134-ec2_metadata_facts-AttributeError.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5a836fa7407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/1134-ec2_metadata_facts-AttributeError.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- ec2_metadata_facts - fixed ``AttributeError`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1134).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/ec2_metadata_facts.py b/plugins/modules/ec2_metadata_facts.py
index 5a7875e634a..754fc34a294 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/ec2_metadata_facts.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/ec2_metadata_facts.py
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ def fetch(self, uri, recurse=True):
                         self._data['%s' % (new_uri)] = content
                         for (key, value) in json_dict.items():
                             self._data['%s:%s' % (new_uri, key.lower())] = value
-                    except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                    except (json.JSONDecodeError, AttributeError):
                         self._data['%s' % (new_uri)] = content  # not a stringified JSON string
 
     def fix_invalid_varnames(self, data):