diff --git a/amazonka.cabal b/amazonka.cabal
--- a/amazonka.cabal
+++ b/amazonka.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                  amazonka
-version:               0.2.1
+version:               0.2.2
 synopsis:              Comprehensive Amazon Web Services SDK
 homepage:              https://github.com/brendanhay/amazonka
 license:               OtherLicense
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
         , Network.AWS.Internal.Retry
 
     build-depends:
-          amazonka-core     == 0.2.1.*
+          amazonka-core     == 0.2.2.*
         , base              >= 4.7     && < 5
         , bytestring        >= 0.9
         , conduit           >= 1.1     && < 1.3
diff --git a/src/Control/Monad/Trans/AWS.hs b/src/Control/Monad/Trans/AWS.hs
--- a/src/Control/Monad/Trans/AWS.hs
+++ b/src/Control/Monad/Trans/AWS.hs
@@ -281,7 +281,9 @@
 -- | Scope a monadic action such that any retry logic for the 'Service' is
 -- ignored and any requests will at most be sent once.
 once :: MonadReader Env m => m a -> m a
-once = local (envRetryPolicy ?~ limitRetries 0)
+once = local $ \e ->
+    e & envRetryPolicy ?~ limitRetries 0
+      & envRetryCheck  .~ (\_ _ -> return False)
 
 -- | Send a data type which is an instance of 'AWSRequest', returning it's
 -- associated 'Rs' response type.