diff --git a/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py b/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py
index 30119b9810e..b159d62367d 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py
@@ -1268,7 +1268,8 @@ class BaseAWSLLM:
 
             # Add back all original headers (including forwarded ones) after signature calculation
             for header_name, header_value in headers.items():
-                request.headers[header_name] = header_value
+                if header_value is not None:
+                    request.headers[header_name] = header_value
 
             if (
                 extra_headers is not None and "Authorization" in extra_headers
@@ -1395,7 +1396,8 @@ class BaseAWSLLM:
         # Add back original headers after signing. Only headers in SignedHeaders
         # are integrity-protected; forwarded headers (x-forwarded-*) must remain unsigned.
         for header_name, header_value in headers.items():
-            request_headers_dict[header_name] = header_value
+            if header_value is not None:
+                request_headers_dict[header_name] = header_value
         if (
             headers is not None and "Authorization" in headers
         ):  # prevent sigv4 from overwriting the auth header
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/llms/bedrock/test_base_aws_llm.py b/tests/test_litellm/llms/bedrock/test_base_aws_llm.py
index 8871bff537d..29ed345d2de 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/llms/bedrock/test_base_aws_llm.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/llms/bedrock/test_base_aws_llm.py
@@ -1556,6 +1556,9 @@ def test_sign_request_with_none_header_values():
 
     This reproduces the Bedrock KB GovCloud issue where SigV4 signing failed
     with 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'.
+
+    Also verifies that None-valued headers are NOT re-merged into the
+    returned headers dict (which would cause downstream HTTP client failures).
     """
     llm = BaseAWSLLM()
 
@@ -1564,6 +1567,7 @@ def test_sign_request_with_none_header_values():
     headers_with_nones = {
         "Content-Type": "application/json",
         "x-amzn-trace-id": None,
+        "x-forwarded-for": None,
     }
 
     with patch.object(
@@ -1586,6 +1590,12 @@ def test_sign_request_with_none_header_values():
         assert "Authorization" in result_headers
         assert result_body is not None
 
+        # None-valued headers must NOT appear in the returned headers
+        for header_name, header_value in result_headers.items():
+            assert header_value is not None, (
+                f"Header '{header_name}' has None value in returned headers"
+            )
+
 
 def test_is_already_running_as_role_ssl_verify_passed():
     """