diff --git a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/MessageAttributes.ts b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/MessageAttributes.ts
index 45aa2b617f..182f250b4c 100644
--- a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/MessageAttributes.ts
+++ b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/MessageAttributes.ts
@@ -106,3 +106,9 @@ export const extractPropagationContext = (
   }
   return undefined;
 };
+
+export const deduplicateMessageAttributeNames = (messageAttributeNames: string[]) => {
+  return Array.from(
+    new Set(messageAttributeNames)
+  );
+};
diff --git a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/sqs.ts b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/sqs.ts
index 1a54c12241..58c0511b98 100644
--- a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/sqs.ts
+++ b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/src/services/sqs.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import {
   contextGetter,
   extractPropagationContext,
   injectPropagationContext,
+  deduplicateMessageAttributeNames
 } from './MessageAttributes';
 
 export class SqsServiceExtension implements ServiceExtension {
@@ -67,12 +68,13 @@ export class SqsServiceExtension implements ServiceExtension {
           spanAttributes[SemanticAttributes.MESSAGING_OPERATION] =
             MessagingOperationValues.RECEIVE;
 
-          request.commandInput.MessageAttributeNames = Array.from(
-            new Set([
-              ...(request.commandInput.MessageAttributeNames ?? []),
-              ...propagation.fields(),
-            ])
-          );
+          const messageAttributeNames = request.commandInput.MessageAttributeNames ?
+          deduplicateMessageAttributeNames(request.commandInput.MessageAttributeNames) : [];
+
+          request.commandInput.MessageAttributeNames = [
+            ...messageAttributeNames,
+            ...propagation.fields()
+          ];
         }
         break;
 
diff --git a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/MessageAttributes.test.ts b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/MessageAttributes.test.ts
index 9cb8cfdde5..f164672adb 100644
--- a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/MessageAttributes.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/MessageAttributes.test.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   MAX_MESSAGE_ATTRIBUTES,
   contextSetter,
   injectPropagationContext,
+  deduplicateMessageAttributeNames
 } from '../src/services/MessageAttributes';
 
 describe('MessageAttributes', () => {
@@ -76,4 +77,12 @@ describe('MessageAttributes', () => {
       expect(Object.keys(contextAttributes).length).toBe(10);
     });
   });
+
+  describe.only('deduplicateMessageAttributeNames', () => {
+    it('should remove duplicate message attribute names', () => {
+      const messageAttributeNames = ["name 1", "name 2", "name 1"];
+
+      expect(deduplicateMessageAttributeNames(messageAttributeNames)).toEqual(["name 1", "name 2"]);
+    })
+  });
 });
diff --git a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/sqs.test.ts b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/sqs.test.ts
index 9563af1de9..901b4fca1d 100644
--- a/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/sqs.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/node/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-sdk/test/sqs.test.ts
@@ -67,17 +67,8 @@ describe('SQS', () => {
   });
 
   beforeEach(() => {
-    const customMessageAttribute = {
-      TestMessageAttribute: {
-        DataType: 'String',
-        StringValue: 'test value',
-      },
-    };
-
     mockV2AwsSend(responseMockSuccess, {
-      Messages: [
-        { Body: 'msg 1 payload', MessageAttributes: customMessageAttribute },
-        { Body: 'msg 2 payload', MessageAttributes: customMessageAttribute }],
+      Messages: [{ Body: 'msg 1 payload' }, { Body: 'msg 2 payload' }],
     } as AWS.SQS.Types.ReceiveMessageResult);
   });
 
@@ -370,15 +361,6 @@ describe('SQS', () => {
         );
       });
     });
-
-    it('should have the custom added message attributes', async () => {
-      receivedMessages.
-        forEach(msg => {
-          expect(msg.MessageAttributes?.TestMessageAttribute?.StringValue).toEqual(
-            'test value'
-          );
-        })
-    });
   });
 
   describe('hooks', () => {