cli: --exclude-services does not seem to work

[dietmar-mueller]

i query several regions via cli and have hang-ups in some regions. to ensure that the jobs are finalized, i monitor the jobs and their output (debug) and exclude the service that was last logged.

this is the procedure

if i then exclude this problematic service with the parameter: --exclude-services, i still see requests for this service in the log and at the end the command gets stuck at this point again

the complete call is

node former2.cli\cli\main.js generate --region ap-south-1 --output-cloudformation ap-south-1.yaml --debug --exclude-services “EC2”

the last outputs in the log are:

1726740148288: sdkcall : EC2.getManagedPrefixListEntries - {“PrefixListId”: “pl-78a54011”}
1726740148290: sdkcall : EC2.getManagedPrefixListEntries - {“PrefixListId”: “pl-9aa247f3”}
1726740148952: sdkcall : EC2.describeCarrierGateways - {}
1726740149579: sdkcall : NetworkFirewall.listFirewalls - {}
Skipping NetworkFirewall.listFirewalls AccessDeniedException
1726740150222: sdkcall : NetworkFirewall.listFirewallPolicies - {}
Skipping NetworkFirewall.listFirewallPolicies AccessDeniedException
1726740150831: sdkcall : NetworkFirewall.listRuleGroups - {}
Skipping NetworkFirewall.listRuleGroups AccessDeniedException
1726740151453: sdkcall : EC2.describeNetworkInsightsPaths - {}
1726740152089: sdkcall : EC2.describeNetworkInsightsAnalyses - {}
1726740152708: sdkcall : EC2.describeTransitGatewayMulticastDomains - {}
1726740153321: sdkcall : EC2.describeTransitGatewayConnects - {}
1726740154026: sdkcall : EC2.describeTransitGatewayPeeringAttachments - {}
1726740154630: sdkcall : EC2.describeNetworkInsightsAccessScopes - {}
1726740155259: sdkcall : EC2.describeNetworkInsightsAccessScopes - {}
████████████████████████████████████████ 99% (146/147 services completed)

i have already tried different positions of this --exclude-services parameter.
i checked the call via powershell and cmd and saw the same behavior (i cross-checked this because of the masking of the argument)

based on the last debug output

1726740155259: sdkcall : EC2.describeNetworkInsightsAccessScopes

I interpret EC2 as a valid service name