diff --git a/oauth2_http/java/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentials.java b/oauth2_http/java/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentials.java
index f96cf096a..4f00517bc 100644
--- a/oauth2_http/java/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentials.java
+++ b/oauth2_http/java/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentials.java
@@ -243,13 +243,19 @@ private String buildSubjectToken(AwsRequestSignature signature)
     return URLEncoder.encode(token.toString(), "UTF-8");
   }
 
-  private String getAwsRegion() throws IOException {
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  String getAwsRegion() throws IOException {
     // For AWS Lambda, the region is retrieved through the AWS_REGION environment variable.
     String region = getEnvironmentProvider().getEnv("AWS_REGION");
     if (region != null) {
       return region;
     }
 
+    String defaultRegion = getEnvironmentProvider().getEnv("AWS_DEFAULT_REGION");
+    if (defaultRegion != null) {
+      return defaultRegion;
+    }
+
     if (awsCredentialSource.regionUrl == null || awsCredentialSource.regionUrl.isEmpty()) {
       throw new IOException(
           "Unable to determine the AWS region. The credential source does not contain the region URL.");
diff --git a/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentialsTest.java b/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentialsTest.java
index 7537c3098..1721fc5c1 100644
--- a/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentialsTest.java
+++ b/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/AwsCredentialsTest.java
@@ -345,6 +345,73 @@ public void getAwsSecurityCredentials_fromMetadataServer_noUrlProvided() {
     }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void getAwsRegion_awsRegionEnvironmentVariable() throws IOException {
+    TestEnvironmentProvider environmentProvider = new TestEnvironmentProvider();
+    environmentProvider.setEnv("AWS_REGION", "region");
+    environmentProvider.setEnv("AWS_DEFAULT_REGION", "defaultRegion");
+
+    MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransportFactory transportFactory =
+        new MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransportFactory();
+    AwsCredentials awsCredentials =
+        (AwsCredentials)
+            AwsCredentials.newBuilder(AWS_CREDENTIAL)
+                .setHttpTransportFactory(transportFactory)
+                .setCredentialSource(buildAwsCredentialSource(transportFactory))
+                .setEnvironmentProvider(environmentProvider)
+                .build();
+
+    String region = awsCredentials.getAwsRegion();
+
+    // Should attempt to retrieve the region from AWS_REGION env var first.
+    // Metadata server would return us-east-1b.
+    assertEquals("region", region);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void getAwsRegion_awsDefaultRegionEnvironmentVariable() throws IOException {
+    TestEnvironmentProvider environmentProvider = new TestEnvironmentProvider();
+    environmentProvider.setEnv("AWS_DEFAULT_REGION", "defaultRegion");
+
+    MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransportFactory transportFactory =
+        new MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransportFactory();
+    AwsCredentials awsCredentials =
+        (AwsCredentials)
+            AwsCredentials.newBuilder(AWS_CREDENTIAL)
+                .setHttpTransportFactory(transportFactory)
+                .setCredentialSource(buildAwsCredentialSource(transportFactory))
+                .setEnvironmentProvider(environmentProvider)
+                .build();
+
+    String region = awsCredentials.getAwsRegion();
+
+    // Should attempt to retrieve the region from DEFAULT_AWS_REGION before calling the metadata
+    // server. Metadata server would return us-east-1b.
+    assertEquals("defaultRegion", region);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void getAwsRegion_metadataServer() throws IOException {
+    MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransportFactory transportFactory =
+        new MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransportFactory();
+    AwsCredentials awsCredentials =
+        (AwsCredentials)
+            AwsCredentials.newBuilder(AWS_CREDENTIAL)
+                .setHttpTransportFactory(transportFactory)
+                .setCredentialSource(buildAwsCredentialSource(transportFactory))
+                .build();
+
+    String region = awsCredentials.getAwsRegion();
+
+    // Should retrieve the region from the Metadata server.
+    String expectedRegion =
+        transportFactory
+            .transport
+            .getAwsRegion()
+            .substring(0, transportFactory.transport.getAwsRegion().length() - 1);
+    assertEquals(expectedRegion, region);
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void createdScoped_clonedCredentialWithAddedScopes() {
     AwsCredentials credentials =
diff --git a/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransport.java b/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransport.java
index fc7e0cdb9..49e2b88be 100644
--- a/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransport.java
+++ b/oauth2_http/javatests/com/google/auth/oauth2/MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransport.java
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ public class MockExternalAccountCredentialsTransport extends MockHttpTransport {
   private static final String TOKEN_TYPE = "Bearer";
   private static final String ACCESS_TOKEN = "accessToken";
   private static final String SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ACCESS_TOKEN = "serviceAccountAccessToken";
+  private static final String AWS_REGION = "us-east-1b";
   private static final Long EXPIRES_IN = 3600L;
 
   private static final JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = new GsonFactory();
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ public LowLevelHttpResponse execute() throws IOException {
             if (AWS_REGION_URL.equals(url)) {
               return new MockLowLevelHttpResponse()
                   .setContentType("text/html")
-                  .setContent("us-east-1b");
+                  .setContent(AWS_REGION);
             }
             if (AWS_CREDENTIALS_URL.equals(url)) {
               return new MockLowLevelHttpResponse()
@@ -245,6 +246,10 @@ public String getAwsRegionUrl() {
     return AWS_REGION_URL;
   }
 
+  public String getAwsRegion() {
+    return AWS_REGION;
+  }
+
   public String getStsUrl() {
     return STS_URL;
   }