diff --git a/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py b/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py
index 35f342ee103..5cbebe40098 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/bedrock/base_aws_llm.py
@@ -1472,11 +1472,6 @@ class BaseAWSLLM:
                 from botocore.exceptions import NoCredentialsError
             except ImportError:
                 raise ImportError("Missing boto3 to call bedrock. Run 'pip install boto3'.")
-            if credentials is None:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "AWS credentials are required when Bedrock bearer token authentication is not configured."
-                )
-
             if credentials is None:
                 raise NoCredentialsError()