diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/ec2_metadata_facts_ami-launch-index.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/ec2_metadata_facts_ami-launch-index.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8e352cc0f3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ec2_metadata_facts_ami-launch-index.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- "ec2_metadata_facts - Avoid an exception caused by the type of the ami-launch-index field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1140)."
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):
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/ec2_metadata_facts/aliases b/tests/integration/targets/ec2_metadata_facts/aliases
index 13acae67556..8207e9895cf 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/ec2_metadata_facts/aliases
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/ec2_metadata_facts/aliases
@@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
-# We're dependent on AWS actually starting up the instances in a timely manner.
-# This doesn't always happen...
-unstable
-
 non_local
 cloud/aws