chore(main): release 6.2.4

Signed-off-by: Zhiwei Liang <zhiwei.liang@zliang.me>
Co-authored-by: Joseph Klix <jkl@amazon.com>

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
   ".release-please-manifest.json": "4.0.2",
   "package.json": "6.0.0",
-  ".": "6.2.3"
+  ".": "6.2.4"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.
 
+## [6.2.4](https://github.com/aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials/compare/v6.2.3...v6.2.4) (2026-08-28)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* skip backoff sleep after the final retryAndBackoff attempt ([#1937](https://github.com/aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials/issues/1937)) ([3852440](https://github.com/aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials/commit/3852440c21363386b7b790605685d08a7c1a4876))
+
 ## [6.2.3](https://github.com/aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials/compare/v6.2.2...v6.2.3) (2026-07-22)
 
 

dist/index.js

@@ -74845,11 +74845,11 @@ async function retryAndBackoff(fn, isRetryable, maxRetries = 12, retries = 0, ba
     info(
       `Retry${opName}: attempt ${nextRetry} of ${maxRetries} failed: ${errorMessage(err)}. Retrying after ${Math.floor(delay)}ms.`
     );
-    await sleep2(delay);
     if (nextRetry >= maxRetries) {
       info(`Retry${opName}: reached max retries (${maxRetries}); giving up.`);
       throw err;
     }
+    await sleep2(delay);
     return await retryAndBackoff(fn, isRetryable, maxRetries, nextRetry, base, label);
   }
 }

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "configure-aws-credentials",
-  "version": "6.2.3",
+  "version": "6.2.4",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "configure-aws-credentials",
-      "version": "6.2.3",
+      "version": "6.2.4",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@actions/core": "^3.0.1",

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "configure-aws-credentials",
   "description": "A GitHub Action to configure AWS credentials",
-  "version": "6.2.3",
+  "version": "6.2.4",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsc",
     "lint": "biome check --error-on-warnings ./src ./test && markdownlint -i node_modules -i CHANGELOG.md '**/*.md'",

src/helpers.ts

@@ -260,13 +260,13 @@ export async function retryAndBackoff<T>(
         `Retrying after ${Math.floor(delay)}ms.`,
     );
 
-    await sleep(delay);
-
     if (nextRetry >= maxRetries) {
       core.info(`Retry${opName}: reached max retries (${maxRetries}); giving up.`);
       throw err;
     }
 
+    await sleep(delay);
+
     return await retryAndBackoff(fn, isRetryable, maxRetries, nextRetry, base, label);
   }
 }