diff --git a/src/spans/awsSpan.test.ts b/src/spans/awsSpan.test.ts
index c2ddbbfd..62847efe 100644
--- a/src/spans/awsSpan.test.ts
+++ b/src/spans/awsSpan.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { getAwsServiceData, getAwsServiceFromHost } from './awsSpan';
 import { Span } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base';
 import { AwsOtherService, AwsParsedService } from './types';
-import { rootSpanWithAttributes } from '../../test/utils/spans';
+import { rootSpanWithAttributes, rootSpanWithoutAttributes } from '../../test/utils/spans';
 import { LumigoAwsSdkLibInstrumentation } from '../instrumentations/aws-sdk/LumigoAwsSdkLibInstrumentation';
 
 describe('awsSpan', () => {
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ describe('awsSpan', () => {
         });
       });
 
+      test('do not raise when span attributes are undefined', () => {
+        const requestData = {
+          body: '',
+          host: 'anything',
+        };
+        const awsServiceAttributes = getAwsServiceData(requestData, undefined, {} as Span);
+        expect(awsServiceAttributes).toEqual({});
+      });
+
       test('does not mark Elastic Beanstalk SQS Daemon spans as skipped', () => {
         const requestData = {
           host: 'localhost',
diff --git a/src/spans/awsSpan.ts b/src/spans/awsSpan.ts
index ae91ca24..9c9e3b25 100644
--- a/src/spans/awsSpan.ts
+++ b/src/spans/awsSpan.ts
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export const getAwsServiceData = (requestData, responseData, span: Span): AwsSer
   if (host?.includes('amazonaws.com')) {
     serviceType = getAwsServiceFromHost(host);
   } else if (
-    span.attributes[SemanticAttributes.HTTP_USER_AGENT]?.toString().startsWith('aws-sqsd')
+    span.attributes?.[SemanticAttributes.HTTP_USER_AGENT]?.toString().startsWith('aws-sqsd')
   ) {
     /*
      * Workaround for Elastic Beanstalk, where a local proxy called "AWS SQS Daemon"