def METHOD_NAME(key):
    try:
        return get_ssm_key('us-east-1', key)
    # helps with unit testing so they don't fail because of ssm creds failure
    except NoCredentialsError as ex:
        # we don't want things to fail during unit testing
        logging.warning(f"loading credentials for key : {key} failed : {str(ex)}")
        return None