diff --git a/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/AsyncHelpers.cs b/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/AsyncHelpers.cs
index 08ae756cec12..a405d80fa025 100644
--- a/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/AsyncHelpers.cs
+++ b/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/AsyncHelpers.cs
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@ private static async Task<string> InitiateMultipartUpload(AmazonS3Client s3Clien
             var initRequest = new InitiateMultipartUploadRequest
             {
                 BucketName = bucketName,
-                Key = objectKey,
-                ServerSideEncryptionMethod = ServerSideEncryptionMethod.None
+                Key = objectKey
             };
 
             var initResponse = await s3Client.InitiateMultipartUploadAsync(initRequest);
diff --git a/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/Properties/launchSettings.json b/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/Properties/launchSettings.json
index 1aa7fa3bd785..466d33421589 100644
--- a/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/Properties/launchSettings.json
+++ b/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/Properties/launchSettings.json
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "Samples.AWS.S3": {
       "commandName": "Project",
       "environmentVariables": {
+        "AWS_REQUEST_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION": "WHEN_REQUIRED",
         "COR_ENABLE_PROFILING": "1",
         "COR_PROFILER": "{846F5F1C-F9AE-4B07-969E-05C26BC060D8}",
         "COR_PROFILER_PATH": "$(SolutionDir)shared\\bin\\monitoring-home\\win-x64\\Datadog.Trace.ClrProfiler.Native.dll",
diff --git a/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/SyncHelpers.cs b/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/SyncHelpers.cs
index fdcff34c6069..8c72d8081343 100644
--- a/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/SyncHelpers.cs
+++ b/tracer/test/test-applications/integrations/Samples.AWS.S3/SyncHelpers.cs
@@ -118,8 +118,7 @@ private static string InitiateMultipartUpload(AmazonS3Client s3Client, string bu
             var request = new InitiateMultipartUploadRequest
             {
                 BucketName = bucketName,
-                Key = objectKey,
-                ServerSideEncryptionMethod = ServerSideEncryptionMethod.None
+                Key = objectKey
             };
 
             var response = s3Client.InitiateMultipartUpload(request);